Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 00:05:24 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 623 ************************************************** Wednesday 05 October 2005 Number 623 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: configure problems : Dave Saville" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:07:29 +0100 (BST) From: "Dave Saville" Subject: Re: configure problems On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:37:28 -0700, Steven Levine wrote: >In <0064641480.00000JWX at pooh.deezee.org>, on 09/23/05 > at 05:55 PM, "Dave Saville" said: > >>A guy in Australia has come up with a script to build it all on other >>platforms. I just had to try it :-) > >>I had to hack the makefile a bit - backslashes and adding sh in front of >>invoked scripts etc. > >Why? What version of autoconf was used to build the configure script? >For configure scripts generated by reasonably recent versions of autoconf, >I find Sorry - wrong makefile :-) What he has done is create an install package that is using make - *then* you run another make to build the package. It is a bit like John's nix build but uses a make file instead of a script. It was this first make file that needed hacking. Once it unpacks everything I have run autoconf in a shell with the following sets and it seems to be doing something at least. :-) Time will tell. Thanks. > >set CONFIG_SHELL=d:/bin/sh.exe >set MAKESHELL=d:/bin/sh.exe >set SHELL=d:/bin/sh.exe > >:: ensure gnu install found >set PATH=d:\usr\bin;%PATH >set PATH=d:\usr\autoconf_257\bin;%PATH > >title GNUDev > >echo Remember to export ac_executable_extensions=.exe from bash -- Regards Dave Saville