Re: [Chicken-users] Msys install and "\"

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Matthew David Parker wrote:
> Well, I actually just wrote that wrong, it's installed to /usr/local/bin
>
> The reason why I don't want it in C:\program files\chicken is because I
> have everything else I need for my project installed in msys, such as SDL
> and all its varients.
>
> The autoconf setup in msys works very well, except for making the "\" when
> it should be "/".  Shouldn't there be some way to change this in the
> configure script?
>   

I'm not going to get into the business of understanding and improving 
the autoconf scripts any more than I already have.  They are legacy.  I 
want you to use CMake.

We would certainly take a patch to the configure script, if you can 
figure out what's wrong with it.  We'd even take, "here's what's wrong, 
here's how you fix it" as opposed to a formal patch.

I'm much more motivated to address CMake problems on MSYS.  However, I'm 
unable to reproduce your problem.  Using my CMake MSYS shell:

PATH='.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/e/Program 
Files/Chicken/bin:/e/Program F
iles/CMake 
2.4/bin:/e/Tcl/bin:/e/WINNT/system32:/e/WINNT:/e/WINNT/System32/Wbem:
/e/Program Files/darcsdir-w32:/e/Program Files/wscite:/e/Program 
Files/Astyle/bi
n:/e/Program Files/XEmacs/XEmacs-21.4.19/i586-pc-win32:/e/Program 
Files/cvsnt:/e
/Python24:/e/Perl/bin:/e/GnuWin32/bin:/e/sbcl/0.9.12/bin:/e/Program 
Files/QuickT
ime/QTSystem/:/e/devel/src/glew/lib:.:/e/Program Files/CMake 
2.4/bin:/e/Program
Files/darcsdir-w32'

Brandon J. Van address@hidden ~
$ csc x.scm

Brandon J. Van address@hidden ~
$ ls x.*
x.exe  x.scm

However, that may not be the end of it.  I use a non-standard MSYS 
shell, from the mingw-install project.  
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-install  Once upon a time, I found 
autoconf support so abysmal in the standard MSYS installation, that I 
dumped it and went with this other guy's packaging, which actually 
works.  Reading the MSYS archives, they're actually very lazy / hostile 
about Autoconf support.  Which surprised me, because I thought one of 
the main points of MSYS was to run Autoconf.  Apparently not!

My x.scm is attached.  Please send me your test.ss, on the slight chance 
that the problem is file dependent.

I will try installing a Chicken to /usr/local/bin and see if that gives 
me any problems.  Meanwhile, please install a CMake version to 
C:\Program Files\Chicken, put C:\Program Files\Chicken\bin in your PATH, 
and see if that solves your problems.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every




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