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Re: Compiling Playstation2 cross compiler.


On 2001-04-11 07:55:14, Patrick Doyle wrote:

If it's a CRLF problem try Corinna's linking with "automode.o" solution:

	make LDFLAGS="/lib/automode.o"

I think it forces all fopen's and open's to be binary (or text :). Anyway, that
fixed my problems with Mutt.

> This sounds suspiciously similar to problems I remember having in the past
> with some compilers but not others.  The two ideas that I would suggest for
> you are 1) make sure you have the latest Cygwin release and 2) play around
> with text vs. binary mounts.  For reasons I don't recall, I decided to just
> mount everything in text mode a long time ago.  I haven't had CRLF problems
> since then.  Others on the list recommend mounting your file systems in
> binary mode for similar reasons.
> 
> --wpd
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of David Ryan
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:25 AM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Compiling Playstation2 cross compiler.
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm attempting to compile a Playstation2 (mips r5900) cross compiler which
> > is based on gnu-gcc under cygwin.  I am currently having a
> > problem with what
> > seems to be related to CrLf problems.  The cc1.exe of the new compiler is
> > failing to treat \\ \n (backslash followed by new lines) correctly for
> > #define's.  It keeps reporting the error "stray '\' in program"
> > where the \
> > should be.  Removing the '\' and placing the complete define on one line
> > seems to fix it, however, I'd prefer to fix the problem at the source.
> >
> > I've tried downloading the source for gcc from cygwin to see if I
> > could see
> > any major differences between source files but so far I've seen none.  I
> > assume cygwin modified the compiler to look for these cases at some stage?
> > How/Where was it done then?  The cross compiler has version 2.9-ee-991111b
> > if thats any help.
> >
> > The assembler and linker have compiled and seem to be functioning
> > correctly.
> > The tar.gz file is available at ps2dev.sourceforge.net and is called
> > gnu-ee-binutils-gcc-1.1.tar.gz on the download page.
> >
> > Its curently stopping at compiling libgcc2.c.  To get this far I have
> > downloaded gettext and compiled and used its libintl.a file.  I've also
> > modified rtl.c to check for '\r' in the functions read_skip_spaces and
> > read_name.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
> > Thanks,
> > David.
> >
> >
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