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Re: two possible cygwin bugs



Can you try to to build the executable using the evaluation version of
binutils -- 
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/private/cgf/binutils-20000722-1.tar.gz
and let us know if THAT version gives a working executable?

--Chuck

Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> 
> Yesterday I downloaded the latest cygwin and tried to build
> gprolog-1.1.6 with it.
> 
> (1) I got a lot of errors from including <sys/cygwin.h>. Shouldn't
> every system header file include any other system header files that it
> needs, so that an application can include system headers in any order?
> I edited /usr/include/sys/cygwin.h to include windows.h, windef.h,
> winnt.h, sqltypes.h and ole.h after sys/types.h.
> 
> (2) A non-functional Pl2Wam/pl2wam.exe was produced. Under Cygwin it
> said "Permession denied", I think, and from Windows I got a typical
> Microsoft long-winded but uninformative message about it not being a
> valid executable. The problem went away when I installed an older
> binutils (binutils-19990818-2.tar.gz) on top of the latest stuff that
> setup.exe had installed. I now seem to have a working gprolog.
> 
> Ask me if you want any further information, but if you want to know
> what version of Windows I'm using you'll have to tell me how to find
> out because I'm a Unix person really.
> 
> Edmund
> 
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