On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 09:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 11:05 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:19:27PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >>> That makes sense. Could you have simplified matters by just prepending > >>> /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin to your PATH? > > > That said, I also recommend against this habit - In case of properly > > packaged autoconf/automake-based packages it definitely wrong. > > Seems like these choices are carefully calculated to cause the maximum > amount of pain to *both* the upstream projects and the poor sods trying > to build them. The logic actually is very simple: configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 will search for i686-pc-mingw32-prefixed tools (such as i686-pc-mingw32-gcc) in $PATH. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list