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Re: possible workarounds for mingw setup
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John Darrington |
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Re: possible workarounds for mingw setup |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:17:24 +0800 |
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On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:00:33AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
unknown-1 <address@hidden> writes:
>>The first is to fix the problem of it only works if unpacked on C:\msys,
>
> A partial work around could be if the installer patches the drive
character in
> the installation. So an end user can, at install time, decide wether it
is C:\
> msys D:\msys etc. Still no solution for networks etc, but it might work
for a
> lot of users. (I didn't check this!)
I really do think that --enable-relocatable is a full solution
for this.
I concurr.
If there are problems with it, then please do report
them and we will do our best to fix them.
I found two (minor) problems, one of which has already been
reported by Michel Boaventura. A patch is attached. I would commit
this, but I'm paranoid about touching the non-default branch since I
messed it up.
J'
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- possible workarounds for mingw setup, unknown-1, 2008/10/06
- Re: possible workarounds for mingw setup, Ben Pfaff, 2008/10/06
- Re: possible workarounds for mingw setup, unknown-1, 2008/10/06
- Re: possible workarounds for mingw setup,
John Darrington <=
- Re: possible workarounds for mingw setup, Ben Pfaff, 2008/10/06
- Re: possible workarounds for mingw setup, John Darrington, 2008/10/07
- Re: possible workarounds for mingw setup, Ben Pfaff, 2008/10/09
- Re: possible workarounds for mingw setup, John Darrington, 2008/10/10
- Re: possible workarounds for mingw setup, Ben Pfaff, 2008/10/10
- Re: possible workarounds for mingw setup, Ben Pfaff, 2008/10/10