Re: gcc build problem - make vpath

2006-10-03 Thread Michael Eager
Dave Korn wrote: On 03 October 2006 22:06, Michael Eager wrote: You mentioned '%' signs in environment variables and VPATH. Bash and make use a '$' to indicate a variable, and make uses '%' to indicate a pattern-matching rule. You're always going to give make a hard time, because if it se

RE: gcc build problem - make vpath

2006-10-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 October 2006 22:06, Michael Eager wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > I looked for make-3.80. I didn't find it in a cygwin repo, > but there was a link on mozilla.org to binaries. I installed > these binaries for make-3.80. > > Building gcc using the mozilla version of make-3.80 fails > as previ

Re: gcc build problem - make vpath

2006-10-03 Thread mwoehlke
Michael Eager wrote: [snip] Building gcc using the mozilla version of make-3.80 fails as previously described. I assumed that this version of make was the same as the one which I previously installed. Apparently, it isn't or there is some other incompatibility. Sounds like that might be a MinG

Re: gcc build problem - make vpath

2006-10-03 Thread Michael Eager
Dave Korn wrote: On 03 October 2006 20:27, Michael Eager wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 03 October 2006 03:10, Michael Eager wrote: It looks like make is not recognizing VPATH correctly. I'm using make-3.80-1. This is unlikely. Gcc is known to build on cygwin. I do it all the time and it has

RE: gcc build problem - make vpath

2006-10-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 October 2006 20:27, Michael Eager wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> On 03 October 2006 03:10, Michael Eager wrote: > >>> It looks like make is not recognizing VPATH correctly. >>> I'm using make-3.80-1. >> >> This is unlikely. Gcc is known to build on cygwin. I do it all the time >> and it

Re: gcc build problem - make vpath

2006-10-03 Thread mwoehlke
Michael Eager wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 03 October 2006 03:10, Michael Eager wrote: It looks like make is not recognizing VPATH correctly. I'm using make-3.80-1. This is unlikely. Gcc is known to build on cygwin. I do it all the time and it has no problem for me. Perhaps something else is

Re: gcc build problem - make vpath

2006-10-03 Thread Michael Eager
Dave Korn wrote: On 03 October 2006 03:10, Michael Eager wrote: It looks like make is not recognizing VPATH correctly. I'm using make-3.80-1. This is unlikely. Gcc is known to build on cygwin. I do it all the time and it has no problem for me. Perhaps something else is underlying. I'v

RE: gcc build problem - make vpath

2006-10-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 October 2006 03:10, Michael Eager wrote: > This might be the wrong mailing list (I couldn't find > a list for make), but I hope that folks might have an > answer/explanation. > > I'm getting an error building gcc on Cygwin. > Specifically, the make in libcpp fails, saying > that it cannot f

gcc build problem - make vpath

2006-10-02 Thread Michael Eager
This might be the wrong mailing list (I couldn't find a list for make), but I hope that folks might have an answer/explanation. I'm getting an error building gcc on Cygwin. Specifically, the make in libcpp fails, saying that it cannot find a rule to make po/be.gmo which is needed by target 'all'.