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RE: Backslashes in configure script - is this a bug?


Sorry, the configure script in question is in the opcodes directory not
the top level one.

R.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Roger Cruz 
> Sent:	Sunday, July 18, 1999 3:24 PM
> To:	'gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Subject:	Backslashes in configure script - is this a bug?
> 
> 
> In trying to figure out why final link is failing, I started to
> examine the output of ./configure at the top level of GDB 4.18 using
> the bash shell provided with CygWin B20.1 and I find that there is an
> error:
> 
> +
> c:\PROGRA~1\cygnus\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\bin\..\lib\gcc-lib\i586-cygwin32\
> egcs-2.91.57\..\..\..\..\i586-cygwin32\bin\ld.exe -v
> + egrep (GNU|with BFD)
> c:\PROGRA~1\cygnus\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\bin\..\lib\gcc-lib\i586-cygwin32\
> egcs-2.91.57\..\..\..\..\i586-cygwin32\bin\ld.exe: permission denied
> 
> The peculiar thing is that this is the only line that uses DOS's back
> slash for dir separator and the "C:" rather than //c/progra~1 like all
> the other lines are doing.  I searched in the ./configure script for
> the origins of this line and I believe it comes from line 1332 where
> ac_prog is being set to the value returned by CC -print-prog-name.
> The value returned is in DOS notation and it does not appear to be
> changed to unix's.
> 
> Why is this happening in my environment?  Has anyone else seen this
> type of problem?  Please help.  I've been trying to get GDB build for
> the last 3 days without any luck and I'm going to be force to abandon
> using it soon.
> 
> Thanks.
> Roger
> 
> ac_prog=ld
> if test "$ac_cv_prog_gcc" = yes; then
>   # Check if gcc -print-prog-name=ld gives a path.
>   echo $ac_n "checking for ld used by GCC""... $ac_c" 1>&6
> echo "configure:1332: checking for ld used by GCC" >&5
>   ac_prog=`($CC -print-prog-name=ld) 2>&5`
>   case "$ac_prog" in
> 
> 

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