[Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch on cygwin?

[Stig Brautaset]

On Aug 24 2003, Barak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to build tla-1.1pre4.tar.gz on cygwin and encountered the
> following problems:
> 
> 1. configure is trying to use cc instead of gcc, so it fails because
> it can't generate executables.

Please try again, this time passing `--with-cc gcc' to configure. 

> 2. after ugly-avoiding the problem (ln -sf gcc.exe to cc.exe, because
> setting CC variable didn't help), make fails because of rm (cannot
> find .es file).

I suspect this can be solved by passing `--config-shell /bin/bash' to
configure.

> 3. Meanwhile chose make -k.
> 4. make test goes well for a while but dies here: (probably the build didn't 
> complete)
> ================ unit-file-names tests ================
> home...
> make[3]: *** [tests-timestamp] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/cygdrive/c/barak/Downloads/tla-1.1pre4/src/=build/h
> ackerlab/tests/fs-tests'
> make[2]: *** [test] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/cygdrive/c/barak/Downloads/tla-1.1pre4/src/=build/h
> ackerlab/tests'
> make[1]: *** [test] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/cygdrive/c/barak/Downloads/tla-1.1pre4/src/=build/h
> ackerlab'
> make: *** [test] Error 2
>  (my workaround attempts are described as well). 

Uhn... I'm not sure what this test does, but I wonder if it tries to
create filenames with `:'s in them? Cygwin does not like that.

Stig

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