Re: [Mingw-users] error building gmp 4.2.1 with MinGW

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Saturday 16 September 2006 6:33 pm, Wolfgang Boiger wrote:
> * I installed MinGW 5.0.3, which downloaded (and installed, I assume)
> gcc-ada, -core, -g++, -g77, -java and -objc 3.4.2. Further binutils
> 2.15.91, mingw32-make 3.80.0, mingw-runtime 3.10 and w32api 3.7. I
> didn't touch any settings during setup (hence it installed into
> "C:\MinGW")
>
> * Then MSys 1.0.10, which installed itself into "C:\MSys\1.0". In the
> DOS-Box after the setup I gave him the directory "C:/MinGW" so the
> fstab was created.

So far, so good, but...

> * I renamed make to mingw32-make so that "make --version" at the
> msys-prompt gives version "3.80".

why did you do this?  The make distributed with MSYS-1.0.10 is version
3.79.  MinGW itself ships with mingw32-make already so named, and IIRC 
that one is 3.80.  If you renamed the MSYS make to mingw32-make, then I'd 
expect `make --version' to say `command not found', unless you have one 
from some other source in your PATH.

The mingw32-make we ship with MinGW is intended for user's who don't want 
to install MSYS; it doesn't play very well with MSYS.  Since you are 
using MSYS, you should stick with the version of make we ship with that, 
and `make --version' should indicate 3.79.

If you really need something newer than 3.79, then get the 3.81 version 
currently available as an MSYS snapshot:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/make-3.81-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2?download

this will be the version shipped with MSYS-1.0.11, when it is eventually 
ready for release.

Regards,
Keith.