Wow Keith - thanks for the quick turn around time! Kind regards, John On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:08 PM Keith Marshall <keith****@users*****> wrote: > Hi John, > > Thanks for reporting this. > > On 29/12/18 22:06, John Calcote wrote: > > configure is failing to find _Bool defined on the system because one > > of the configuration test programs is failing with the following > > output: > > > > configure:5194: checking for stdbool.h that conforms to C99 > > configure:5269: gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5 > > C:\...\Temp\ccZ4szQd.s: Assembler messages: > > C:\...\Temp\ccZ4szQd.s:12: Error: unknown .loc sub-directive `view' > > C:\...\Temp\ccZ4szQd.s:12: Error: junk at end of line, first > > unrecognized character is `-' > > C:\...\Temp\ccZ4szQd.s:20: Error: unknown .loc sub-directive `view' > > Ouch! > > > A quick google search lead me to this Fedora bugzilla issue: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1552529 > > > > It seems mingw may be using an old binutils since upgrading to gcc > > 8.2.0? > > Indeed, yes. The last version posted on OSDN.net was 2.28, (which seems > to be too old). Although I've been using GCC-8.2.0 for several months > now, (as a Linux hosted mingw32 cross-compiler), I'd overlooked that my > cross installation was using an in-tree binutils-2.31.1 build, and > in-tree binutils builds don't seem to play nicely with the GCC > cross-native process I used to build gcc-8.2.0-mingw32. > > I was able to reproduce your issue, on a WinXP VM, after performing a > clean mingw-get install of g++-8.2.0-mingw32. Just now, I've completed > a build of binutils-2.31.1-mingw32, and overwriting the binutils-2.28 > installation in the VM does seem to resolve the issue. > > I'll get the new binutils-2.31.1-mingw32 packages posted ASAP, but do > please be aware that there can be around an hour's delay between posting > and propagation of the updates to the mirrors, (so mingw-get will not > see them straight away). > > -- > Regards, > Keith. > > Public key available from keys.gnupg.net > Key fingerprint: C19E C018 1547 DE50 E1D4 8F53 C0AD 36C6 347E 5A3F > > _______________________________________________ > MinGW-Users mailing list > MinGW****@lists***** > > This list observes the Etiquette found at > http://www.mingw.org/Mailing_Lists. > We ask that you be polite and do the same. Disregard for the list > etiquette may cause your account to be moderated. > > _______________________________________________ > You may change your MinGW Account Options or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/listinfo/mingw-users > Also: mailto:mingw****@lists*****?subject=unsubscribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/archives/mingw-users/attachments/20181229/80241371/attachment-0001.html>
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