[Mingw-cross-env-list] Re: [libsndfile-devel] Re: Build issues with windres in version 1.0.23

[Tony Theodore]

On 15 October 2010 06:51, Erik de Castro Lopo <address@hidden> wrote:
> Tony Theodore wrote:
>
>> The recent update to 1.0.23 seems to have introduced a few issues
>> around windres. The first is the shave tool passing along some
>> unrecognised options:
>>
>> i686-pc-mingw32-windres: unrecognized option '--shave-mode=compile'
>
> Yes, I am aware of that.
>
>> I was able to avoid this by configuring with --disable-shave.
>
> and that is a good workaround.
>
> Since automake 1.11 has an AM_SILENT_RULES macro I've dropped shave
> in favour of that.
>
>> The second issue is an instance of "sed" in configure:18488 that was
>> causing windres to report a syntax error. Changing this to $SED
>> allowed the build to succeed. There are a few more of these in
>> configure.ac, but they don't seem to cause a problem in this case
>> (cross building from FreeBSD to Windows).
>
> Fix that in my dev sources. Thanks.
>
>> P.S. Is there a public archive of the list? I couldn't find one on the 
>> website.
>
> Sorry, no there isn;t.
>
> Cheers,
> Erik

Thanks for the quick reply, I'm copying the mingw-cross-env list, as
this was reported there.

Cheers,

Tony