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error building binutils on cygwin

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Thu Jun 22 14:11:00 GMT 2006 
Hi Sveta,

> I need to build binutils. Tried different versions from 2.16.1 to 2.16.94.
> Always the same problem, which is shown in the log below. Please give me the
> hint - how to solve that.
> 
> mkdir .libs
> gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -g -O2 -o
> ld-new.exe ldgram.o ldlex.o
> lexsup.o ldlang.o mri.o ldctor.o ldmain.o ldwrite.o ldexp.o ldemul.o ldver.o
> ldmisc.o ldfile.o ldcre
> f.o ei386pe.o deffilep.o pe-dll.o  ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a
> ../libiberty/libiberty.a
> deffilep.o: In function `main':
> /projects/crosstool-0.42/build/i686-pc-cygwin/gcc-4.1.1-/build-binutils/ld/d
> effilep.c:1: multiple de
> finition of `_main'
> ldmain.o:/projects/crosstool-0.42/build/i686-pc-cygwin/gcc-4.1.1-/binutils/l
> d/ldmain.c:183: first de
> fined here

It looks like you have a bad or out of date version of bison installed 
on your machine.  The constructed deffile.c file is not supposed to have 
a main() function in it.

Please check to see which version of bison you have installed, and 
update it if you can.

Cheers
   Nick
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