Re: Building on CygWin

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

"Robin Davies" <address@hidden> writes:

> I haven't actually tried this, but
>
>     $ ls -l  /usr/bin/guile-config
>     -rwxr-xr-x    1  Robin D unknown      9320 Apr 22 15:48
> /usr/bin/guile-config
>          ^   ^  ^

Hmm, that's strange.

> and guile-config executes to the extent that it can give a usage
> message.

What does

     guile-config link

say?     

> I have been deleting config.cache each time I run ./config as a
> matter of routine paranoia.

Good.

> I don't think that's it.

I think it is.  ./configure first tries 'guile-config' and if that
fails, it tries other things like

> /usr/bin/i686-pc-cygwin-guile-config :

... ouch ... boom!

> ;-) Not at all. It built! With only a couple of very minor workarounds for
> probable oddities in the the cygwin configuration. You should try building
> packages like JMax. Now, that's painful. lol.

Thanks,
Jan.

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