RE: 7.0.2 on Windows 2000

> i'm trying to compile 7.0.2 for a windows 2000 box. make
> works along quite
> happily until it hits directory backend/access/rtree. there
> the linker
> command fails with an error about an unsupported PEI
> architecture pe-i386.
>
> exact linker command: ld -r -o SUBSYS.o rtget.o rtproc.o
> rtree.o rtscan.o
> rtstrat.o
> exact error message: Unsupported PEI architecture: pe-i386

This error must be cygwin-related. There were some problems with make and
other tools - please check the cygwin mailing list archives at
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin or try the newest versions.

>
> target subsys.o is created but 0 length. restarting make ignores the
> described error, but creates the same one in the next
> directory in sequence.
>
> anybody out there any idea what is going wrong here? any help greatly
> appreciated.

        Dan