Re: Building MXE / nettle

[Michael Goffioul]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Stefan Mahr <address@hidden> wrote:

>>     'nettle' fails to build for mingw builds, since you introduced a new
>>     variable 'CCAS' that not exist. The patch below works as temporary
>>     solution.
>>
>>     Stefan
>>
>>     ------------------------------------------
>>     --- a/src/nettle.mk      Sat Jun 22 13:19:20 2013
>>     -0400
>>     +++ b/src/nettle.mk      Sun Jun 23 13:11:24 2013
>>     +0200
>>     @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
>>          cd '$(1)' && ./configure \
>>              $(CONFIGURE_CPPFLAGS) $(CONFIGURE_LDFLAGS) \
>>              $(HOST_AND_BUILD_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS) \
>>     -        $(ENABLE_SHARED_OR_STATIC) \
>>     +        $(ENABLE_SHARED_OR_STATIC) CCAS=$(MXE_CC)\
>>              --prefix='$(HOST_PREFIX)'
>>          $(MAKE) -C '$(1)' -j '$(JOBS)' getopt.o getopt1.o
>>          $(MAKE) -C '$(1)' -j '$(JOBS)'
>>
>>
> Could you be more specific which changeset broke compilation and under
> which system? I try to be careful not to interfere with the other build
> systems, but maybe I overlooked something.

Changeset 9c56d108c141 and b39e8dc859f7:

Maybe found the root cause: You add
+    MXE_CCAS := gcc
in Makefile.in to native build, but not to cross build.

That's indeed a leftover, but AFAIK MXE_CCAS variable is not used anywhere, so I don't see how this can be a problem.

Michael.