Re: [Mingw-users] OT: General issues with cross-compiling

[John B. <joh...@ho...>]

Keith Marshall wrote:

>
> On Saturday 30 May 2009 02:24:33 John Brown wrote:
>>>> These may contain hard-coded DOS [sic] -style paths.
>>>
>>> If they do, they are broken. It's that simple;)
>
> Unfortunately, the reality is that it is not that simple.
>

[snip]

>> So when I am building  the MinGW port of man,
>
> man is a particular case in point, which in no way is "that simple".
>
>> I must configure with --prefix =`cd /usr/local; pwd -W` (or
>> something similar) as they warn you to,
>
> That is specific to building with MSYS, on MS-Windows; for your
> Ubuntu hosted cross compiler, you would use --prefix='c:/mingw', (or
> whatever eventual Windows path you plan to install into).
>

I understand all of that. In fact, -W is not even a legal option
on Linux. I think my problem was that it did not accept
c:/msys/1.0/local, so I just did not bother to specify --prefix.
I see from your example that I should have put the Windows path
in single quotes.


Regards,
Alias John Brown.

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