On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:14:55AM -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. I'm not sure if adding: WINDRES = windres ... $(WINDRES) ... to a Makefile constitutes "maximum amount of pain", but in any case we've successfully ported 50+ libraries to MinGW using similar techniques, and without impacting upstream negatively. http://hg.et.redhat.com/misc/fedora-mingw--devel?mf=ac270e95b1e4;path=/ Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
