Re: [Mingw-msys] [Mingw-users] error when using autoconf 2.60 or 2.61 with MSYS/MinGW

[Vincent T. <vt...@un...>]

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Keith MARSHALL wrote:

>> CONFIGURE_OPTIONS=${CONFIGURE_OPTIONS-"--prefix='`win32path
> ${PREFIX}`'"}
>>
>> So it is certainly the problem.
>
> It certainly seems plausible;  however, when I originally built autoconf
> 2.60, I had
>
>  ac_default_prefix=`cd /usr/local && pwd -W`
>
> in my config.site file.  This would have identically the same effect as
> that `CONFIGURE_OPTIONS` setting, (`win32path is a function, which if
> PREFIX is set to /usr/local, effectively expands to that same command).

I've just tried on my computer:

  cd /usr/local && pwd -W

the result is:

D:/msys/1.0/local

win32path returns indeed the value of pwd -W, so the problem is that 
function.

I don't really know the options of pwd (I have found no doc about the 
MSYS version), but it seems that there is 3 available parameters : P, L 
and W. Here are the results on my computer when run in /usr/local:

vincent@TORRI /usr/local
$ pwd -P
/usr/local

vincent@TORRI /usr/local
$ pwd -L
/usr/local

vincent@TORRI /usr/local
$ pwd -W
D:/msys/1.0/local

Hope this helps

Vincent Torri