Re: Building on MinGW using MXE-built dependencies [WAS: Re: mxe-installer try 2]

[John W. Eaton]

On 06/09/2013 01:11 PM, John D wrote:
>  From changes committed in yesterday, I can compile dependencies up to
> qrupdate.
> I had been able to get up to trying to compile octave previously, but
> suddenly it is failing when untaring qrupdate (which is something I haven't
> changed very recently):
>
> cd '/home/jdonoghue/mxe-octave2/tmp-qrupdate'&&   tar xzf
> '/home/jdonoghue/mxe-octave2/pkg/qrupdate-1.1.2.tar.gz'
> tar: Archive value 121173 is out of uid_t range 0..65535
> tar: Archive value 121173 is out of uid_t range 0..65535
> tar: Archive value 121173 is out of uid_t range 0..65535
> tar: Archive value 121173 is out of uid_t range 0..65535
>
> Skipping, qrupdate, other packages untar etc ok, so I am assuming there is
> something wrong with the qrupdate tarball that is downloaded from the
> website - I tried on 2 computers with the same issue.
> Anyone else see the same thing when doing a native mingw, and anyone have
> any ideas?

I checked in some new changes and am doing a fresh build on mingw native 
now but it is not to qrupdate yet.  I'll let you know if I see problems. 
 My builds with mingw cross and debian native worked OK.  I'm at this 
changeset;

  changeset:   3033:6de7af4502e9
  tag:         tip
  user:        John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
  date:        Sun Jun 09 11:20:40 2013 -0400
  summary:     backout 316b79f1a41b; native configure scripts shoudl 
not be installed with prefix

jwe