Re: Build Issues

[jason stein]

Thanks Kerin.  I will check that out.
Jason

On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 11:09 AM Kerin Millar <kfm@plushkava.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 08:05:37 -0800
> jason stein <jstein916@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I installed make using choco (package manager) using the command "choco
> > install make".  I am also attaching the output of my configure which I
> > capture with "./configure>configure_output".
> > thanks
>
> I suspect that chocolatey installs a Win32 port that is not intended to be
> used from within an MSYS2 environment, potentially resulting in issues with
> pathname translation. If you wish to build for MSYS2 specifically, I would
> suggest getting rid of "Git for Windows" and installing MSYS2 directly from
> https://www.msys2.org/ instead. With the aid of its pacman utility, you
> will be able to install all of the prequisites for building bash. Indeed,
> it offers a base-devel package group that covers a number of packages
> commonly required for development. It can be installed by issuing the
> following command.
>
> pacman -S --needed base-devel
>
> Of course, you may use it to install git as well.
>
> Another option would be to use a Linux distribution through WSL (Windows
> Subsystem for Linux).
>
> --
> Kerin Millar
>