On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Kai Ruottu <kai.ruo...@wippies.com> wrote: > Jie Zhang wrote: >> >> On 12/28/2009 12:59 PM, Pardis Beikzadeh wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Also 'make bootstrap' doesn't work without running configure, so I'm >>> not sure what the "recommended way" mentioned in the email below >>> means. >>> >> The bootstrap in Jim's reply means, I think, building a minimal (only C >> front-end) gcc-3.2 first using gcc-3.4. Then you can use the minimal gcc-3.2 >> to build a full gcc-3.2. >> >> > Maybe installing a gcc-3.3 based Cygwin-release like the '1.6.6' and then > building gcc-3.2 with it would succeed immediately : > > http://www.filewatcher.com/m/cygwin-1.6.6.zip.496537660.0.0.html > > Or simply finding a gcc-3.2-based Cygwin-release from the net.... > > It can also be possible that gcc-3.2 expects some old Cygwin-runtime as the > binutils & C-library components, trying to get gcc-3.2 to work > with uptodate binutils and Cygwin-runtime may simply be impossible or very > hard :( > >
Thanks for the advice. After reading your suggestion I tried to find an older installation of Cygwin. I found one but I have yet to try it and see if in fact gcc3.2 does solve my other problems. Cheers, Pardis Beikzadeh
