[Mingw-users] x86-mingw32-build.sh: config.guess: No such file or directory [was RE: Cross compiling]

[Dave K. <dav...@ar...>]

Keith Marshall wrote on 13 December 2007 20:14:

[  Yeh, it was a while ago.  So I have more info now, because I've actually
been trying the mingw.org scripts for the first time.  ]

> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 19:50 +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> How do you do this. Sorry for the dumb question. I
>>> couldnt really find any documentation. I would like to
>>> try building some programs on linux for windows.
>> 
>>   The simplest way I know is to go to
>> 
>> http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/
> 
> What is wrong with the cross-compiler build scripts which we ourselves
> provide?

  What, like apart from it not working?  ;-)

> Use somebody else's, and you'll likely find you are on your own.

  I'll file a bug, but just in case this rings a bell with anyone: the build
failed when trying to configure w32api with a file-not-found error.

------------------<snip>------------------
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install'.
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/dk/mingw/tmp/mingw-3.4.5/build-gcc/libiberty/testsuite'
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/dk/mingw/tmp/mingw-3.4.5/build-gcc/libiberty'

x86-mingw32-build.sh: stage 1: build w32api ...
x86-mingw32-build.sh: line 139: ../config.guess: No such file or directory
x86-mingw32-build.sh: line 139: ../configure: No such file or directory
x86-mingw32-build.sh: unrecoverable error configuring w32api
------------------<snip>------------------

and this turns out because something went wrong with the temp build dir
structure, which made this code here rather unhappy:

------------------<snip>------------------
   137        case $COMPONENT in mingw-runtime | w32api)
   138          setbuilddir ${COMPONENT}-*
   139          $RUN ../configure --prefix="$INSTALL_DIR" --host="$TARGET" \
   140            --build=${BUILD_PLATFORM=`../config.guess`} || die $? \
   141            "$unrecoverable configuring $COMPONENT"
------------------<snip>------------------

  Now, I guess that line 138 is trying to use a wildcard to cd into whatever
is the component directory without having to care about the trailing
version-number suffix, but it doesn't work nicely for me because looking in
the build temp dir:

[dk@quattro x86-mingw32-build.sh-0.0-20061107-1]$ ls -la ../tmp/mingw-3.4.5/
total 32
drwxr-xr-x   8 dk eng 4096 Jul 29 16:57 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 dk eng 4096 Jul 29 16:52 ..
drwx------  18 dk eng 4096 Jul 29 16:55 binutils-2.17.50-20060716-1-src
drwxr-xr-x   5 dk eng 4096 Jul 29 16:58 build-gcc
drwxr-xr-x  10 dk eng 4096 Dec 12  2005 gcc-3.4.5-20060117-1
drwxr-xr-x   5 dk eng 4096 Aug 30  2006 mingw-runtime-3.10
drwxr-xr-x   4 dk eng 4096 Jul 29 17:00 w32api-*
drwxr-xr-x   4 dk eng 4096 Apr 14  2006 w32api-3.7
[dk@quattro x86-mingw32-build.sh-0.0-20061107-1]$ 

.... it looks like the directory actually got created!



  Anyway, if anyone's already discovered this one, please let us know how
you fixed it.  I tried googling this but couldn't find anything similar, so
in the meanwhile I'll get on with filing a bug in the tracker.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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