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Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake |
Date: |
Thu, 08 May 2014 05:54:18 +0300 |
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 04:40:07 +0900
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
>
> > > No problem there, since I'm sure there are packaged pkg-configs.
> >
> > How do you mean "packaged"? They are just *.zip archives (not that it
> > isn't enough, IMO).
>
> I mean cd to the right place, unzip, and you're ready to run.
That's correct.
> > > > and making sure its pkg.m4 file is in the directory where aclocal
> > > > looks for such files.
> > >
> > > That's the kind of thing that shouldn't be necessary IMO.
> >
> > It cannot be avoided on Windows, because one needs to have 2
> > Posix-like trees: one for MSYS and another one for native MinGW
> > programs.
>
> So? If you need two copies of pkg-config, install twice.
One copy of pkg-config is enough, and there's no MSYS pkg-config
binaries available (AFAIK) to become the 2nd copy.
> If you don't, there should be an explanation of how to install it
> and then copy/mv pkg.m4 so that the caller that needs it can find
> it. It shouldn't be Andrew's or anybody else's problem to figure
> these things out (unless they have installed them already someplace
> other than where README.NT or whatever is appropriate suggests).
People should feel free to add to nt/INSTALL what they think is
necessary. My understanding for now is that no one really knows why
things didn't work for them, and my setup, described in nt/INSTALL,
does work for me.
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, (continued)
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, Andy Moreton, 2014/05/07
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, martin rudalics, 2014/05/07
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/05/07
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, martin rudalics, 2014/05/07
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/05/07
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/05/07
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/05/06
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/05/07
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/05/07
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/05/07
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- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, David Kastrup, 2014/05/07
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, Óscar Fuentes, 2014/05/06
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/05/06
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, Óscar Fuentes, 2014/05/07
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/05/07
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, Óscar Fuentes, 2014/05/07
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/05/07
- Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake, Óscar Fuentes, 2014/05/07
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