Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] gcc in msys

[Tony Theodore]

On 12 March 2012 02:47, Luis Saavedra <address@hidden> wrote:
[...]
> ...
> checking size of mp_limb_t... 0
> configure: error: Oops, mp_limb_t doesn't seem to work
> make[4]: *** [configure-stage1-gmp] Error 1
>
> gmp??? but this error does not occur with relative path...

It seems there's a difference in the way msys/mingw tools mangle
paths. From your msys shell, compare the output of these two:

$ pwd
/home/tony/mce-msys

and

$ pwd -W
C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/tony/mce-msys

The mingw tools (gcc) seem to convert to the windows "C:/..." style
internally when given an absolute path, but it's a one way conversion.
They can't find the unix style "/home/..." paths.

Of course, colons are valid unix paths, so you'd think something like:

make PWD=`pwd -W`

would work, but make files can't have colons in any target specification.

You could try using the msys-gcc, but that's quite old.

Cheers,

Tony