cygwin build problems on gcc-3_0-branch and main-trunk

Tue Apr 17 15:45:00 GMT 2001

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:26:04AM +0200, Holejsovsky, Pavel wrote:
>I believe that it is because of broken mmap() in cygwin1.dll (at least in
>latest released version 1.1.8). I worked around this problem by removing
>/usr/include/sys/mmap.h, thus pretending to GCC configure that cygwin does
>not have mmap at all. After this, I was able to build working C and C++
>compiler (in gcc-3.0-branch, haven't tried main-trunk).

We'll be releasing a new version of the Cygwin DLL soon which will solve this
problem.
In the meantime, I believe that a less drastic solution than removing your
mmap.h file is to 'configure --with-gc=simple '.
cgf