cygwin buildroot error - how to include libs ?

Hello,

when building building cygwin I get the error shown below, due the lost linker not finding functions from the libintl library. The packages libintl, libintl1 etc are part of my cygwin installation.

I first ran into a similar problem when building the 2.6.21.1 kernel, which could be fixed by adding HOST_LOADLIBES="-lcurses -lintl" to the invocation and thus to the make commands. No luck. Would anyone know a place that will cause make to add it for all HOSTCC(linker) invocations?

Furthermore, is there a minimum requirement for the host gcc, is 3.4.4 good enough?

Thanks
Tom

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Buildroot cygwin build error
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CC clean:                                       Ok
CXX clean:                                      Ok
CPP clean:                                      Ok
CFLAGS clean:                                   Ok
INCLUDES clean:                                 Ok
CXXFLAGS clean:                                 Ok
which installed:                                Ok
sed works:                                      Ok (/usr/bin/sed)

GNU make version '3.81': Ok
C compiler '/usr/bin/gcc'
C compiler version '3.4.4': Ok
C++ compiler '/usr/bin/c++'

C++ compiler version '3.4.4':                   Ok
bison installed:                                Ok
flex installed:                                 Ok
gettext installed:                              Ok
makeinfo installed:                             Ok
Build system dependencies:                      Ok

set -x && make MAKE="make -j1" -C /tw/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/uClibc \
                 PREFIX=/tw/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/uClibc_dev/ \
                 DEVEL_PREFIX=/usr/ \

RUNTIME_PREFIX=/tw/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/uClibc_dev/ \
                 HOSTCC="gcc" \
                 pregen install_dev

+ make 'MAKE=make -j1' -C /tw/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/uClibc PREFIX=/tw/bu
ildroot/toolchain_build_arm/uClibc_dev/ DEVEL_PREFIX=/usr/ RUNTIME_PREFIX=/tw/bu ildroot/toolchain_build_arm/uClibc_dev/ HOSTCC=gcc pregen install_dev /bin/sh:
/tw/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/bin/arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc: No
such file or directory
make[1]:
/tw/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/bin/arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc: Co mmand not found
make[1]: Entering directory `/tw/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/uClibc' make[1]:
/tw/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/bin/arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc: Co mmand not found
make[1]: Entering directory /tw/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/uClibc' make[1]: Entering directory /tw/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/uClibc' /bin/sh:
/tw/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/bin/arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc: No
such file or directory
make[2]:
/tw/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/bin/arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc: Co mmand not found
make[2]:
/tw/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/bin/arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc: Co mmand not found
gcc -I/usr/include/ncurses -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE conf.o
zconf.
tab.o -o conf
conf.o:conf.c:(.text+0xb2): undefined reference to _libintl_gettext' conf.o:conf.c:(.text+0xc6): undefined reference to _libintl_gettext' conf.o:conf.c:(.text+0xda): undefined reference to _libintl_gettext' conf.o:conf.c:(.text+0xf2c): undefined reference to _libintl_gettext' conf.o:conf.c:(.text+0x10c5): undefined reference to _libintl_gettext' conf.o:conf.c:(.text+0x116f): more undefined references to _libintl_gettext' fo
llow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [conf] Error 1
make[1]: *** [extra/config/conf] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tw/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/uClibc'
make: *** [/tw/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/uClibc/.configured] Error 2