Well. You now know why we can't reproduce in a cross compiler. I don't recall offhand but does windows come with a sort program??? Maybe the msys one is not early enough in the path??? (I don't know anything about msys by the way...I always cross compile)
Sent from my iPod On Mar 24, 2010, at 21:14, "Sisyphus" <sisyph...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Semler" > <dougsem...@gmail.com> > >> Actually, the command that's failing is: >> >> x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar t >> "/c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14/block/.libs/libgslblock.a" | sort | sort -uc >> >> (The error message is misleading because it prepends the extract >> directory onto the archive name, and it is not the actual command >> that's failing....). >> >> if you run that command, what happens? >> > > I get: > > ############################## > r...@desktop2 /c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14 > $ x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar t "/c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14/block/.libs/ > libgslblock.a" | sort | sort -uc > -ucThe system cannot find the file specified. > > r...@desktop2 /c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14 > $ x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar t "/c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14/block/.libs/ > libgslblock.a" > init.o > file.o > block.o > > r...@desktop2 /c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14 > $ x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar t "/c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14/block/.libs/ > libgslblock.a" | sort > block.o > file.o > init.o > > r...@desktop2 /c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14 > $ x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar t "/c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14/block/.libs/ > libgslblock.a" | sort -uc > -ucThe system cannot find the file specified. > ############################## > > I don't know what the '-uc' is supposed to do, but it apparently > gets interpreted as a filename (which doesn't exist, of course). > > The 3 files (block.o, file.o and init.o) are to be found in the > gsl-1.14/.libs/libgsl.lax/libgslblock.a/ folder, as is supposed to > happen I believe. (They were there at the time the 'make' process > errored out.) > > I've just had a quick look at 'man sort' on my linux box. I can't > successfully apply any of the switches there to the sort command in > the msys shell. They all seem to produce "The system cannot find the > file specified" error, even if I use the longhand form (ie --unique > instead of -u). > > Cheers, > Rob > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
