Re: [Mingw-msys] Typo problem and some new observations

[Luke D. <cod...@ho...>]

Interesting. Did you build this perl with Mingw or does it work with
ActiveState perl too? Earnie actually released the autotools in the msysDTK
package (see the Mingw files page) with an MSYS-dependent perl so that it
could handle POSIX paths, but I expect many people will prefer your method
if it works equally well.

Luke Dunstan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Goszczynski, Piotr" <pio...@an...>
To: <min...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 7:25 AM
Subject: RE: [Mingw-msys] Typo problem and some new observations


Now I enjoy MSYS 1.8 with little typo problems fixed - thanks.
My main objective however are GNU autotools. Binary distribution of MSYS
1.8 does not have prerequisite components for autotools. M4 is there but
aclocal, automake, autoconf and libtool are not there. So I took courage
to collect source code packages for these missing components. And
automake package as being perl script has been very stubborn. Even if I
have perl installed on my machine and its location is recognized during
make and installation process then aclocal and automake will not work
smoothly (as they do on Linix or Cygwin). Eventually I realized that
reason for that is somewhat simple and obvious. Externally installed
perl has no clue what "/usr/local/.." means. You can cheat with --acdir,
-I OPTIONS for aclocal and --amdir OPTION for automake to force dumb
things to work. But attempt to "make dist" eventually fails and
frustrates all your efforts to manage a "Minimal Project" as prescribed
in GNU AUTOCONF, AUTOMAKE, and LIBTOOL chapter 4 by famous authors.
After big struggle I have found something that might be of use to the
MSYS.
If I "configure" AUTOMAKE package if fully legal OPTION
--prefix=C:/what-ever-full-path-to-MSYS-local (colon for C matters great
deal) everything build and installs beautifully and perl is now totally
happy - aclocal, automake and "make dist" behave exactly as on Unix
platform.
Let me now what you think of this little deviation from purity of MSYS
concept.
Cheers
Piotr


-----Original Message-----
From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:ear...@ya...]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 5:10 PM
To: Goszczynski, Piotr
Cc: min...@li...
Subject: Re: [Mingw-msys] Typo problem


Thanks for the report :r  I'm glad you actually read the documentation.
I'll
fix for the next release.

Earnie.

"Goszczynski, Piotr" wrote:

> There is a little typo problem in documentation files that also gives
broken
> WEB page link during installation (unlikely to be tried but still
...).
> Link to msys WEB page specified as http://www.mingw.org/msys.shmtl
should
> rather be http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml . Typo present in
> MSYS-1.07-changes.rtf, MSYS_LICENSE.rtf and MSYS_WELCOME.rtf files.
>
> Cheers,
> Piotr