Re: Can not compile Texinfo with MinGW+MSYS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Lennart Borgman" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:47:41 +0200
> 
> : > 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).

Then please try building once again, and post the entire session
transcript.

> Though there is a problem here. Is MSYS and GNU Fileutils using different
> versions?

No,I think MSYS comes with GNU Fileutils.  Try invoking ls.exe with a
"--version" switch and see what it produces.

> How do one tell? (And why I they using bourne syntax instead of
> posix syntax for the shell commands?)

I don't follow--what do you mean by that?

> : > 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 ;-)

It stopped due to previous errors, not because of this warning.