Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Xerces library problem

[tek]

On 07/16/2010 02:34 PM, Volker Grabsch wrote:
> tek<address@hidden>  schrieb:
>    
> > On 07/14/2010 03:21 PM, tek wrote:
> >      
> > > Thank you Volker for pointing me in the right direction. As far as I
> > > understood it, it does not seem to be a problem in the
> > > mingw-cross-env's xerces.mk file, but deeper into the Xerces build.
> > >
> > > Please confirm, so I can report it to the Xerces maintainers.
> > >        
> [...]
>    
> > Here's how I fixed it:
> >
> > $ cd /opt/mingw
> > $ sudo rm /bin/sh&&  sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh
> > $ rm usr/installed/xerces
> > $ make xerces
> > $ sudo rm /bin/sh&&  sudo ln -s /bin/dash /bin/sh
> >      
> Sorry for not stopping you earlier on that. I'm afraid that you
> were looking at the wrong direction.
>    

Mainly my fault, I started to make things very wrong in the first place.

> The problem is _not_ that Ubuntu uses Dash as /bin/sh, but that
> the build process of Xerces involves some bashisms. So we should
> fix Xerces, not Ubuntu.
>    

And that's also what I suggested in my first attempt to fix it. But I 
was suggesting reporting it to Xerces maintainers instead of here, 
because I tried to redefine $(SHELL) in mingw-cross-env (which did not 
work as you say below).

Again, it's my fault. I was no clear enough overall.

> Note that xerces.mk already contains an attempt to fix that:
>
>      $(SHELL) ./configure \
>          ...
>
> where $(SHELL) is "bash". However, that approach apparently
> doesn't work anymore. But it isn't the best approach anyway,
> because ./configure scripts provide an explicit "CONFIG_SHELL=..."
> setting:
>
>      ./configure \
>          ... \
>          CONFIG_SHELL=$(SHELL)
>
> We already do that in gdb.mk, and I just fixed gettext.mk and
> xerces.mk to do it that way, too:
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/b761d575310e
>
> So please restore your /bin/sh to Dash

You can see that I did it already in the last line of my fix, because I 
don't like modifying my system like this (it usually hits you soon or 
later).

Thanks for the infos.

>   and use our current
> development version where xerces.mk is fixed:
> http://mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org/#development
>    

Thanks for that! This is cleaner now.

Regards,

--
Alex