Compiling on cygwin32

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Aug-1999, Ji Yu <address@hidden> wrote:

| Has anybody tried to compile it on cygwin32 (versionB20) ?
| 
| I got these error infomation that I don't really understand:
| 
| -----------------------------
| g77 -c -fPIC -O dgamln.f -o pic/dgamln.o
| /CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/i586-cygwin32/bin/as.exe: bfd assertion fail 
/home/noe
| r/src/b20/comp-tools/devo/bfd/coff-i386.c:479
| c:\windows\TEMP\ccuDyIte.s: Assembler messages:
| c:\windows\TEMP\ccuDyIte.s:178: Error: Cannot represent relocation type 
BFD_RELO
| C_386_GOTPC
| make[3]: *** [pic/dgamln.o] Error 1
| make[2]: *** [amos] Error 2
| make[1]: *** [libcruft] Error 2
| make: *** [all] Error 2
| ---------------------------

What configure options did you use?  It looks like you are trying to
use --enable-shared, which is not really supported yet on Windows
systems (unless someone has done some work that they haven't told me
about).  Try again without --enable-shared.

jwe



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