Re: [Mingw-msys] Call to action: MSYS-1.0.11 candidate release on hold

[Patrick B. <pjl...@gm...>]

> Just doing
> './configure' in /msys/packages/coreutils/5.97 fails at:
>
> checking whether it is possible to resort to fread on /etc/mnttab... no
> configure: error: could not determine how to read list of mounted file systems

Beg pardon. I was in the MINGW shell, not the MSYS shell. In the MINGW
shell (started with msysdvlpr) I get:

>>>
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:
C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
>>>

config.log doesn't look too useful. It ends:
>>>>

## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

#define PACKAGE "coreutils"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "bug...@gn..."
#define PACKAGE_NAME "GNU coreutils"
#define PACKAGE_STRING "GNU coreutils 5.97"
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "coreutils"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "5.97"
#define VERSION "5.97"
#define _GNU_SOURCE 1

configure: exit 77
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