Re: compiling Classpath on cigwin/win

[Michael Koch]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:10:19PM +0100, Enrico Migliore wrote:
> Mark Wielaard wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 08:56 +0100, Enrico Migliore wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>I still got 2 problems on my Cygwin which prevent Classpath from 
> >>generating glibj.zip
> >>   
> >>
> >
> > 
> >
> >>Problem 1
> >>----------
> >>Found when issuing: $make
> >>
> >>make  all-am
> >>make[2]: Entering directory 
> >>`/home/Enrico/projects/classpath/classpath-0.19/examples'
> >>mkdir -p classes/gnu/classpath/examples/icons
> >>cp ./gnu/classpath/examples/icons/*.png 
> >>classes/gnu/classpath/examples/icons
> >>/usr/local/bin/jikes -bootclasspath '' -extdirs '' -sourcepath '' 
> >>--classpath ../lib:.
> >>-d classes ./gnu/classpath/examples/*/*.java  cd classes;  -r 
> >>../examples.zip .; cd ..
> >>/bin/sh: -r: command not found
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Configure didn't find zip. This is a bug in out configure setup:
> >http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24133
> >"Configure does not detect (fatal) missing zip executable"
> >
> >Problem 2 is most likely the same issue.
> >
> >Have you installed zip? If not, try installing that first. If you have
> >make sure it is in your PATH. And if it is still not found look in
> >config.log to see if there is an hint why it isn't found.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Mark
> > 
> >
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> yes, gzip is installed on my Cygwin and the version is 1.3.5
> 
> What am I supposed to do now: should I wait for the patch or
> try to modify the configure script?

gzip != zip. You need to install the zip utility.


Cheers,
Michael
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