On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 03:42:56PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > 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 $PATH. > > there is a fedora-mingw list which is the right place to ask. > anyway in the latest mingw32-filesystem there is a script > mingw32-configure which do it right. Yes, to be clearer what Levente means is that you should use: %{_mingw32_configure} in RPM specfiles, and if just building from the command line use: mingw32-configure Both are merely wrappers around this basic command: ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 except that they set a lot more paths and a environment variables, which are needed in rarer / corner cases. The full expansion is below for anyone who is interested, although only PKG_CONFIG_PATH is needed in 95% of cases. Rich. HOST_CC=gcc; export HOST_CC; AS="i686-pc-mingw32-as"; export AS; AR="i686-pc-mingw32-ar"; export AR; NM="i686-pc-mingw32-nm"; export NM; OBJDUMP="i686-pc-mingw32-objdump"; export OBJDUMP; PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig"; export PKG_CONFIG_PATH; CC="${MINGW32_CC:-i686-pc-mingw32-gcc}"; export CC; CXX="${MINGW32_CXX:-i686-pc-mingw32-g++}"; export CXX; CFLAGS="${MINGW32_CFLAGS:--O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -mms-bitfields}"; export CFLAGS; CXXFLAGS="${MINGW32_CXXFLAGS:--O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -mms-bitfields}"; export CXXFLAGS; for i in `ls /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin|grep -- "-config$"` ; do CONFIG_NAME=`echo $i|tr "a-z-" "A-Z_"`; declare -x $CONFIG_NAME="/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/$i" ; export $CONFIG_NAME; done ; ./configure --cache-file=mingw32-config.cache \ --host=i686-pc-mingw32 \ --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu \ --target=i686-pc-mingw32 \ --prefix=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw \ --exec-prefix=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw \ --bindir=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin \ --sbindir=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/sbin \ --sysconfdir=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/etc \ --datadir=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share \ --includedir=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include \ --libdir=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib \ --libexecdir=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/libexec \ --localstatedir=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/var \ --sharedstatedir=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/com \ --mandir=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/man \ --infodir=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/info -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my OCaml programming blog: http://camltastic.blogspot.com/ Fedora now supports 68 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list