Re: Building portions of coreutils

[NightStrike]

On 2/2/08, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
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> According to NightStrike on 2/2/2008 9:17 AM:
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> | That would work, but that requires configure to complete for the
> | entire set of utils.  I was hoping for something like "--disable-all
> | --enable-ls" or some such thing passed to configure to only run the
> | configure tests for the pieces of coreutils that I want to build.
> | That way, the configure tests that fail won't affect me.
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> Which configure tests are failing?  The problem is that it's extremely
> difficult to pick which subset of configure tests are relevant to a
> particular binary, since the same workarounds are shared among so many
> binaries.  But without details, we can't help investigate workarounds.
> Meanwhile, you can prime the cache before running configure by setting
> appropriate variables, or even post-edit the resulting config.h to better
> match the true characteristics of your platform.

checking for BEOS mounted file system support functions... no
checking whether it is possible to resort to fread on /etc/mnttab... no
configure: error: could not determine how to read list of mounted file systems


There's a message in the mailing list archive from several years ago
where someone else encountered this.  I don't have the link offhand,
but someone replied asking for a wya to do it in windows, and some
sample code.  The thread ended there, though, so I imagine there's
been no more progress.  If you know of a way to at least bypass the
configure test, that'd be a good start.


> |
> | To be even more precise, I want to see how many of the core utils I
> | can get to natively compile for x86_64-pc-mingw32 using the new
> | compiler I just built.
>
> Mingw has notoriously been a difficult porting platform, thanks to its
> lack of standards compliance.  Even worse is the fact that 64-bit support
> for mingw is so new.  I wish you luck in your efforts.

Thanks :)  I agree that mingw is a very hard platform to work with.
My intent is to just get enough programs working to be able to
configure and build the toolchain (binutils, gcc, and gdb).