Re: building gettext 0.15-pre0 on Windows XP using MinGW

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Dave,

* Dave Patton [DCP] wrote on Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:46:50AM CET:
> I'm trying to build GNU gettext on Windows XP.
> 
> I'm using gettext 0.15-pre0 obtained from CVS:
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=gettext
> as it is supposed to support MinGW.

> I'm getting one error from ./configure
> http://punt.sourceforge.net/files/temp/configure-output.txt

| ./configure: gl_STRCASE: command not found

You are missing a macro from gnulib[1],

> and multiple errors from make
> http://punt.sourceforge.net/files/temp/make-output.txt

| /c/gettext/build-aux/missing: aclocal-1.9: command not found

For CVS checkouts, you needed autotools anyway?  Some corrupt time
stamps trigger their reruns?

| /bin/sh: cd: glocale: No such file or directory

Hmm.  glocale package?  Maybe a followup error due to the missing gnulib
files?

BTW, it would be easier if you did like this:
  make >makelog 2>&1

then the error output would be better in line with the commands that
created it.

Cheers,
Ralf

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/