Re: MinGw port of gawkextlib

[Manuel Collado]

El 11/05/2022 a las 15:11, Eli Zaretskii escribió:
> > Cc: bug-gawk@gnu.org
> > From: Manuel Collado <mcollado2011@gmail.com>
> [...]
> As I reported a few minutes ago, I didn't have any problems with
> Autotools.  Mainly because I built a release tarball, where Automake
> isn't needed.  But even if building from Git, what version of Automake
> did you have in MSYS that didn't fit the bill, and what version does
> gawkextlib require?

MSYS has automake versions up to 1.11. Gawkextlib distribution tarballs 
have been generated with automake 1.16.

> > (1) On a Unix/Linux environment:
> > - Compile, link, test and generate a new source tarball, without install:
> >       WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.11 autoreconf -i && \
> >       ./configure --with-gawk=... --with-gawkextlib=... --prefix=... && \
> >       make && make check && make dist
>
> Alternatively, you could download the latest Automake, and build and
> install it on your Windows system.  I have Automake 1.16.1 and
> Autoconf 2.69, both of which I think I built myself some time ago.

Of course. But this implies that the Mingw+Msys distribution alone is 
not enough to build gawkextlib.

Regards.
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Manuel Collado - http://mcollado.z15.es