Re: Can not compile Texinfo with MinGW+MSYS

[Lennart Borgman]

Hi Eli,


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden>


: > I have tried to compile Texinfo with MinGW+MSYS. Configure runs ok (I
: > believe) but make fails. The problems I have seen so far are:
: >
: > mkdir - too many args
:
: My crystal ball says Texinfo wants a Unixy mkdir, but you either don't
: have it or your ported Make invokes the cmd.exe's built-in version of
: mkdir.  Make sure you have a Windows port of GNU Fileutils installed,
: and then tweak Make setup to invoke mkdir.exe from Fileutils.  (As the
: last resort, you can rename mkdir.exe to gmkdir.exe and edit the
: Makefile's to call gmkdir instead of mkdir.)

Thanks, but I must obiously learn to be more clear. This was a message from
gcc (though I lost the output and just typed what I remembered of the error
output).

Though there is a problem here. Is MSYS and GNU Fileutils using different
versions? How do one tell? (And why I they using bourne syntax instead of
posix syntax for the shell commands?)


: > makeinfo.c: In function `error':
: > makeinfo.c:218: warning: passing arg 2 of `libintl_vfprintf' discards
: > qualifiers from pointer target type
:
: This is a warning (GCC started whining about such ``problems'' in
: recent versions).  It shouldn't prevent makeinfo from building, so
: don't worry about that.

The build stopped - I did not worry ;-)


- Lennart