RE: Compiling newlib-1.20 for ARM/CYGWIN

["Bin Cheng" <bin dot cheng at arm dot com>]

> Hi,
> I try to compile newlib-1.20 for an ARM architecture with CYGWIN. I
> get these error:
> 
> /../../../newlib-1.20.0/libgloss/arm/.. -g -fshort-wchar -c
> ../../../../newlib-1.20.0/libgloss/arm/linux-syscalls0.s
> ../../../../newlib-1.20.0/libgloss/arm/linux-syscalls0.s: Assembler
messages:
> ../../../../newlib-1.20.0/libgloss/arm/linux-syscalls0.s:23: Error:
> bad instruction `global(_ ##name)'
> ../../../../newlib-1.20.0/libgloss/arm/linux-syscalls0.s:23: Error:
> junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `\'
> ../../../../newlib-1.20.0/libgloss/arm/linux-syscalls0.s:24: Error:
> garbage following instruction -- `swi #SYS_##name'
> ../../../../newlib-1.20.0/libgloss/arm/linux-syscalls0.s:24: Error:
> junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `\'
> ../../../../newlib-1.20.0/libgloss/arm/linux-syscalls0.s:25: Error:
> junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `\'
> ../../../../newlib-1.20.0/libgloss/arm/linux-syscalls0.s:26: Error:
> bad instruction `size(_ ##name)'
> ...
> 
> I can compile newlib-1.19 without errors.
> 
> Here's my configure:
> 
> ../$NEWLIB_SRC/configure CFLAGS=-fshort-wchar CXXFLAGS=-fshort-wchar
> AFLAGS=-fshort-wchar \
> ? ?--target=$target --prefix=$prefix \
> ? ?--enable-interwork --enable-multilib \
> ? ?--disable-newlib-supplied-syscalls \
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

I don't have workable cygwin environment, but built newlib-1.20 successfully
on linux 
for target arm-none-eabi. What target do you use? Also what compiler do you
use?
It is a little weird, since the file does not change from newlib-1.19 to
newlib-1.20.

Thanks.