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Re: Compiling GNU sed


On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:13:53AM +0000, www.mail wrote:
>I have just updated my Cygwin, and I'm trying to compile the latest GNU
>sed (4.1.3) with the command:
>
>CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" ./configure --disable-nls
>
>It compiles OK.  But when I run make, I get several errors stating
>"undefined reference to `_wcrtomb'".
>
>If I compile it without the -mno-cygwin option, make produces the
>executable successfully.
>
>During compilation without -mno-cygwin, there is a message:
>
>checking for wcrtomb...  yes
>
>But during compilation with -mno-cygwin, the corresponding message is:
>
>checking for wcrtomb...  no
>
>Please could someone tell me my I'm getting ths error?  All I know
>about wcrtomb is that it's included in wchar.h.  I don't have all
>Cygwin packages, but the ones that I do have are the latest versions.
>
>Any help would be much appreciated.

Either don't use -mno-cygwin, or don't expect configure to be able to
figure out that _wcrtomb doesn't exist when running in a cygwin
environment when it actually does exist in a cygwin environment.

Or, perhaps you need to talk to the people at the mingw project:
http://www.mingw.org/ .

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