[Mingw-users] problem with dlltool

[Brian S. <min...@br...>]

I'm trying to build evolution from source on Windows 2000.
I have mingw installed in C:\Program Files\msys\1.0\mingw\ 
In the course of building, I see messages like:
  "Can't open Files\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\as for reading: No such file
   or directory"
but the build continues.

At first glance, that seems like a pretty serious problem, but based on the fact that the build ignores it, and based on my poking around the .libs directories, I'm starting to suspect it's not really a problem.

Is this a problem?  Is this behavior documented somewhere?  Are there workarounds besides moving my mingw installation somewhere else?