-----Original Message----- From: 'Ralf Wildenhues' [mailto:Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 00:07 To: Eric Blake Cc: Howard Larson; autoconf@xxxxxxx Subject: Re: [autoconf 2.63] 95 of 353 tests fail * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 05:25:16AM CEST: > Please don't top-post. > > > I have performed a search for a conftest.obj file and it does not exist. As > > I mentioned in an earlier email, build of libtool failed to produce any .obj > > files. > > > > I have installed MinGW. Does it not have gcc? If not, how do I ensure make > > check is using gcc? (I am new to this build environment.) > > You may be better off asking these sorts of questions on the mingw list, > then. Maybe, but the issue Howard reported looks pretty clearly like an Autoconf one. I'll try to get my w32 up and running again, maybe this weekend, to reproduce his issue. > Yes, gcc is available pre-built for mingw, although I'm not sure > whether it is installed by default or an optional selection. But again, > the choice of using gcc vs. cl.exe is something that the developers on > the mingw list are much more familiar and competent with. But Autoconf should be working with either. Cheers, Ralf ---------------------------------------------------- My installation of mingw/bin has gcc.exe. The entire suite of compilers is installed except for Ada. Regards, -- Howard Larson _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
