RE: Support for Interix 5.2 and 6.0?

[Duft Markus]

Ralf Wildenhues <> wrote:
> Hello Peter, Martin, all
> 
> * Martin Koeppe wrote on Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:45:22PM CET:
>> 
>> the following problems occured:
>> 
>> - without ./bootstrap, libtool-2.1 doesn't have
>>   config.guess/config.sub files, so I used
>>   "./configure --build=i586-pc-interix5.2".
>>   OTOH, libltdl/config has very old config.{sub,guess}, the same
>>   old version is in several tests, which therefore fail for me.
> 
> Peter, could we get the daily snapshot to be bootstrapped with
> Automake 
> 1.10 and Autoconf 2.61?  Thanks.
> 
> Until then, I guess you, Martin, need to bootstrap before testing.
> Alternatively, assuming that you have up to date copies of
> config.guess and config.sub in the directory $config_sources, you
> could do something like
>   find libtool-2.1a -name 'config\.*' -exec \
>        cp $config_sources/config.* \{\} \;
> 
> and retest.  For 2.1a, there is only one instance of the config.*
> files anyway, so you can just replace them manually.
> 
>>> If the failure "don't know how to build libltdlc.la" persists with
>>> the nightly tarballs, we need to look into that.  Which make
>>> version is this?
>> 
>> Sorry, you guessed right. I did accidentally not use GNU make on
>> Interix 
>> 5.2. Now I have installed GNU make 3.81 there, too, and building and
>> all tests done with it. Now for 1.5.23c, there is only 1 failing
>> test, the hardcode test.
> 
> What 'make' did you then use on Interix, and where can I get
> documentation for it?

It for sure was the native interix make -> i'm having big porblems with
it too. When building the wgcc package, it simply doesn't build some
things. The result is that there is only one library, but no executable
and nothing.

-> Native make on interix is not usable, only to build GNU make ;o)

Cheers, Markus

> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf