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On 5/26/06, Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote: > > I don't know anything about either msys or mingw, so I don't really know > what to recommend. > > I'm afraid I don't understand what a patch would actually try to do. > From your previous message, it looks like sh.exe is changing the path > delimiters and shell escapes so that things don't work anymore. Are you > trying to patch Configure.pl to handle those changed delimiters and shell > esacapes? Or do you have something else in mind? The patch would be nothing more than a warning. As I said, the PATH environment has absolutely no effect on the configure process, just the build process. During the configure process, we can warn the user that the build process won't work unless they do something about their PATH. In particular, prevent mingw from using msys and subsequently changing the the behavior of path delimiters and shell escapes. I would love to submit a patch to make using msys transparent and "just work" but after searching the archives, it appears that people working on it far longer than I have had little to no luck with it and I am just getting my feet wet again. Also, what's the preliminary setting of $make got to do with it? You've > still got to call some sort of make command in the end. It may seem odd to some to put a warning for $make as mingw32-make in a section of code when $make is actually nmake at that point. Placing it at the end of Configure.pl may make more sense since it is the last set of instructions to the user but it appears that a lot of work has gone in to making it platform neutral. If you're just wondering where '$make' gets set, then config/inter/make.pm > is where to look -- it seems to prefer mingw32-make over nmake. Perhaps > that's wrong. I don't think it is wrong but perhaps the order of hints/make should change. I don't know that's why I am asking. -- > Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu > Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~RegionThread Previous | Thread Next