Re: FW: [Mingw-msys] How do I recreate the MSYS distribution?

[Max T. W. <max...@ve...>]

Progress report --

I've built the following to the point where 'make install' works:

autoconf    from GNU - not in msys/packages.  I had trouble with
            enough packages and autoconf that I tried reinstalling it.
            I'll look for differences from the MinGW kit RSN...
bash-2.05b  2.04 also built.  Both have problems in make-check...
byacc       from Cygwin - a substitute for 'bison'
bzip2       not under autoconf.  Copy the tree to be safe.
check       from Cygwin - it didn't solve the problem I was trying
            to solve - not recommended.
diffutils   ...
fileutils   ...
findutils   ...
flex        from GNU, sort of...
gawk        ...
m4          ...
rt          I think there are problems with the .dll but I am NOT sure
rxvt        This took some hacking with CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS.  I think
            I understand what Earnie meant by his comments on W11 now.
            I may be able to work up a patch or two to make this easier.
            Strange second version tree that I ignored...  Patches?
            Letting it call itself an 'xterm' causes less trouble when
            I 'ssh' into other systems...
sed         ...
termcap     I've posted a patch and a bug report.

At least one of those took hacking that I failed to log.  There is trouble 
with the following --

grep        It insists on doing an 'autoconf' and can't find macro
            _m4_divert_diversion
gzip        In file included from /usr/include/unistd.h:7,
                 from /xxx/packages/gzip/1.2.4a/gzip.c:76:
            /usr/include/getopt.h:41: redefinition of `struct option'
less        in configure -- checking for working terminal libraries... 
            Cannot find terminal libraries - configure failed
make        _m4_divert_diversion again
sh-utils    autoconf macros AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE and AM_FUNC_STRTOD
            Reinstalling 'autoconf' may have fixed this...
tar         some kind of automake or autoconf problem...
texinfo     needs some kind of terminal library...
textutils   same as sh-utils
vim         Argh!  IIRC it blew but I trashed to logs.  me bad!

bison       It builds but the 'check' target shows serious issues.
            Since 'byacc' is available, I'm going to wait on this one.

I think I'm close to the point where I could write a script to
do this.  I do need to ream the system out again and redo it
because I've kluged too much.  I'm close to having this under
control but I need to get the last of it working first so the
ream-out and restart will have to wait.

There are a number of text processing and other tools that would 
get more of the make targets functional.  For example one of the 
TeX packages, etags, docbook and groff are all called upon.  I 
also saw a calls for 'runtest' without a clue where to get it.
(Actually I'll probably be able to dig its origin out of RedHat
Linux.  I just haven't gotten to it yet.)

max