Re: [Mingw-msys] using mingw with msys

[Soren A. <sor...@sp...>]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:56:53 +0200, "Jean le Roux" <je...@in...>
said:

> > Also, it is unorthodox to have such a dir as
> > "/local"; the normal thing would be "/usr/local/[bin,include,lib,etc]".
> 
> I know all these things, but that is how MSys installed _itself_. I
> just went with it.

Sorry! Please pardon all the compound assumptions about your
experience. Anyway some other user may be helped (if the List archives
are sufficiently searchable ;-) in the future -- I didn't know most of
this when i began using mingw some time ago.

> I donw have _any_ other stuff installed under MSys, save for MinGW.
> so there are no other gcc's or any other foreign bins.

Hmmm! strange.

> > Do you perchance have something like Cygwin installed on
> > your machine as well? Or remnants of (an incompletely uninstalled)
> > Cygwin? 
> 
> Nope, clean box (Working on VMWare)
> 
> >What does your `gcc --version' give?
> root@JEANVM / gcc --version
> 2.95.3-6

Actually, my erronious advice based on weak memory. For the record, one
gets more informative output by asking merely `gcc -v':

$ gcc -v
Reading specs from h:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/2.95.3-5/specs
gcc version 2.95.3-5 (mingw special)

Anyway it looks like you have the right one.

> > The docus for gcc say that:
> > (1)  /usr/local/include
> > (2)  /usr/lib/gcc-lib/target/version/include
> > (3)  /usr/target/include
> > (4)  /usr/include
> 
> I think the whole prblem stems from the fact that I somehow ended up
> with /local instead of /usr/local.


> I know *NIX :) like I said, I did not want to disturn the std
> installation to much, how it got /local, i honestly don know, I just
> simply left it like that.

That's really strange. I just set up msys 1.0.6 on a clean NT box 5
days ago and I got:

msys
  |
   --1.0
        |
         --bin
        |
         --+doc
        |
         --etc
        |
         --uninstall

That's all! No "/mingw" and certainly no "/local" were created on my
system. I already had the mingw package installed in a separate tree
elsewhere so I did not move anything into a created subdir under msys
but rather just added the [foo/]mingw/mingw32/bin and [foo/]mingw/bin
to my PATH in my NT User environment settings under control panel.
Everything is working pretty nicely for me so far (but TTtT I have not
built any packages that use configure yet...).

> I'll keep you updated on what i find :)

Please do.

    Cheers,
       Soren Andersen