make problem with cygwin

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

THis does not fail on my home PC.  It is a P4 running XP Pro.
It should be a fairly clean machine as I had a hard disk die and
had to reload from OS disks a few months ago.  Is there anything
to learn from comparing something on the two machines?

This morning I just upgraded the Cygwin on the dual CPU
machine that failed earlier this week.  It now works.

Is everyone who experiences this problem running the
latest and greatest Cygwin?

--joel

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 00:28, Joel Sherrill  wrote:
> 
>>Martin R. Calsyn wrote:
>>
>>>Ahh - having $(LIB) set could be it.  If you have almost any version of
>>>Microsoft Visual Studio installed, LIB and INCLUDE will be set in global
>>>environment variables and make will pick up those settings.
>>
>>
>>That's a known one that's bad. 
> 
> There even is an entry on this topic in the FAQ ;)
> 
> BTW:
> * LIB is supposed to be worked around in rtems-4.7/CVS for quite a
> while.
> * INCLUDE had never been used.
> 
> 
>> Also having spaces in your PATH is bad.
>>But I don't have those issues and still get it.
>>
>>I have a TEMP and TMP set.
> 
> AFAIK, TEMP is DOS/WIN specific, TMP isn't and could interfere.
> 
> Both are not explicitly used by RTEMS's configuration, but they could be
> used by tools. One would have to check these tools source code to be
> sure ;)
> 
> 
>>  Some variables with paths do have ~'s in them.
> 
> Do you mean *nixish "$HOME"s or WIN'ish shortened directories?
> Do you mean paths or directories?
> 
> All of them are unsafe and can be troublesome. However, I don't think
> they do any harm unless they are in environment variables being used by
> cygwin or configure scripts (I.e. TMP, PATH, CWD/PWD)
> 
> 
>>Ralf.. if you suspect something on this line, I can privately email
>>you the env output.
> 
> Though I can't exclude anything, I don't expect this to be cause for the
> "build_alias" problem.
> 
> Ralf
> 
> 


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