Re: 2.4 Release in 24hrs

[Charles Wilson]

On 9/19/2010 3:27 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> The 'make' used is GNU make 3.79.1.

Yikes.  Where did THAT come from?  MSYS has provided at least make-3.81
for several years; the current msys make is 3.82.

> There is a 'mingw32-make' which is
> GNU make 3.82, but does not seem to work under MSYS.

Right.  mingw32-make is for when you do NOT have msys installed, and
just want to use a makefile with MinGW gcc.  Obviously, without msys,
you can't run configure scripts, or generate Makefile's from
Makefile.in's, etc -- or use libtool.  Just as obviously, when building
libtool itself, you darned well better have msys installed, so
mingw32-make is not appropriate.  Besides, mingw32-make doesn't grok
msys-style pathnames.

I sounds like your msys installation is WAY out of date.  What I would
suggest is the following:

1) download and install mingw-get (get the .zip file, and unpack it
somewhere innocuous like C:\Temp\MinGW-Installer -- NOT C:\MinGW,
because we don't want to disturb your existing TDM mingw compiler.

You do not want to use easier mingw-get-inst wrapper, because it will
automatically also install mingw.org's gcc, and you're using TDM.  You
*could* use mingw-get-inst, but (a) you'd have to pick a different
installation directory, and (b) by default, your new msys would be in
C:\<mingw-inst-dir>\msys\1.0, NOT C:\msys\1.0.


2) edit C:\Temp\MinGW-Installer\var\lib\mingw-get\data\profile.xml (if
it doesn't exist, copy default.xml).  You should change the following
two lines:

    <sysroot subsystem="mingw32" path="%R" />
    <sysroot subsystem="MSYS" path="%R/msys/1.0" />

To this:

    <sysroot subsystem="mingw32" path="%R" />
    <sysroot subsystem="MSYS" path="C:/msys/1.0" />

The default configuration will install a new MinGW into <whereever
mingw-get is>, and a new MSYS into <whereever mingw-get-is>/msys/1.0.
You don't want that...so you have to edit the defaults.

You might want to move your existing msys installation out of the way.

Then, from a cmd prompt, cd to C:\Temp\MinGW-Installer\bin and do this:

mingw-get update
mingw-get install mingw-dtk

The first command updates all of the locally cached package manifests to
the latest version.  The second command downloads and installs a
selection to tools that will closely mimic the old "MSYS-DTK" package --
into C:\msys\1.0\*.  However, as mingw-dtk (and the old "MSYS-DTK")
collection includes "mingw"-ish autoconf/automake/libtool, THOSE tools
will get installed into <wherever-mingw-get-is>/*.

It's up to you whether you should brute force copy these files over onto
your existing TDM C:\MinGW  or not (but do NOT put them into
C:\msys\1.0!!!)  Alternatively, of course, you could edit the mingw32
subsystem path specification in profile.xml, and install THOSE
components directly into C:\MinGW.

After that, you need to edit C:\msys\1.0\etc\fstab to add
   C:\MinGW /mingw
as usual...but that's old hat.

--
Chuck