Re: [DotGNU]pnetlib and builddir != srcdir

[Earnie Boyd]

Rhys Weatherley wrote:
> On Friday 17 October 2003 03:07 am, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
>
> > Raw Cygwin as in dependent on the cygwin1.dll runtime?  I want raw 
> > windows as dependent on the MSVCRT.DLL runtime.
>
>
> When using Cygwin to compile, you can specify "--disable-cygwin" on the 
> configure line to force it to build a version that will run stand-alone under 
> Windows.  This is how most people normally build a "MingW" version.

I don't think this --disable-cygwin would help in my case because it's 
already disabled.  The build process produces a build environment of 
``i686-pc-mingw32'' from config.guess.  I'll check for the cygwin 
specifics in the build scripts to see if they should be applied to my 
build environment.

> > The CVS version of cscc 
> > fails in the configure process for pnetC.  See the attached config.log file.
>
>
> > >    Don't know how to spawn child processes on this system
>
>
> Hmmm.  It looks like it didn't properly detect that your system is Win32-based 
> when pnet was built.  The detection is done in "pnet/include/il_values.h".  
> You'll have to figure out why it didn't detect it and let us know.

Ok, I'll take a look, however I was able to add code to cscc for spawn 
with pipe for win32.  Now I get a different error in configuring pnetC, 
but I'll post a new thread for that.

> > The question, "How do I tell csant how to find the source?" I still need
> > the answer to.
>
>
> And I don't understand the question.  It should just find it when you 
> configure and build the system normally.  There should be no situation under 
> which you need to tell csant where the source directory is unless you are 
> running the tools manually.  Which isn't recommended.
>
> I did just confirm that pnetlib has some problems when building in a separate 
> build directory.  I suggest sticking with building in the source directory 
> for now.  One less source of problems to deal with.  I will try to figure out 
> what the problem is once DotGNU 0.1 is out of the way.

I'll post the patches I have so far.  I'm sure after applying those and 
building in a different directory than the source you'll understand the 
question.  I'll use a subject ``Earnie's pnetlib build patches''.

> I recommend getting Cygwin and configuring with "--disable-cygwin".  That 
> configuration has been tested extensively and is known to work.

The defacto standard build environment for executing configure for MinGW 
is MSYS.  My goal here is to make your build environment work with the 
MinGW distributed tool set.  So, using Cygwin isn't an option I care to try.

Earnie
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