On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Robert Slater wrote: > Hi there, > > In the process of installing perl modules to get an IRC bot working > via cygwin, I'm encountering a > problem with make & installing ExtUtils::CBuilder and thus the modules > that depend upon it. The > make / install goes through fine, but cygwin doesn't seem to detect it > afterwards. >
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-fstack-protector" This is a command line option which only GCC 4 understands. You only have GCC 3 installed. You need to install the gcc-4 package. You may also need to change the default gcc to gcc-4 using the "alternatives" tool (man alternatives), or force Perl to use GCC 4. This may work (untested) CC=gcc-4 perl Build.pl -- Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
