Re: Make CVS HEAD version build out of the box

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

> > Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:12:41 +0800
> > From: "Yongwei Wu" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> >
> > (Slapping myself) sorry for my folly.  With your information I
> > successfully built Make under Cygwin:
> >
> > autoreconf -i
> > ./configure --build=i686-pc-mingw32 CC='gcc -mno-cygwin'
> > cd w32 && make && cd ..
> > make make.exe
>
> Beware: the make.exe binary produced in this way is not guaranteed to
> behave like intended.  This is because this way of building a native
> Windows port of Make is not officially supported.  As one caveat, you
> will see that config.h.W32.template has near its end a few symbols
> whose definition changes Make's behavior wrt program invocation with
> various shells you might have installed: I'm not sure what the
> configure script does with those definitions, so please at least look
> at those symbols and verify that the binary you produced will behave
> as you'd like it to.

There should be no reason it shouldn't work but isn't --build the wrong 
switch?  Don't you want --host instead?  The --build switch is saying 
that your environment is i686-pc-mingw32 but your environment is cygwin.

> > I saw now the way my copying config.h.W32.template to config.h was not
> > correct.  Do I have to manually replace %PACKAGE% and %VERSION%?  Is
> > there an easy way?
>
> Well, you could edit it with Sed, instead of just copying.  Someone
> who dares to build a CVS version can be expected to have Sed
> installed.

I have a feeling that Yongwei knows what he is doing.

Earnie