Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/11/30/22:11:23
Bob Rossi wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 09:45:21PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> Bob Rossi wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 06:45:10PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>>> Bob Rossi wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using autoconf. I notice when I use things like
>>>>> AC_CHECK_SIZEOF (int)
>>>>> that the ac_cv_sizeof_int has the value of "4\r".
>>>>>
>>>>> There is an extra carriage return in there. I start my configure
>>>>> script with
>>>>> ./configure --build=mingw32
>>>>> could that be the problem?
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any solution to having these macro's work correctly on cygwin?
>>>>> or did I break it by using the --build option? BTW, I can't test it
>>>>> without the --build option because the configure script doesn't even get
>>>>> that far otherwise, since this is a mingw package (sort of).
>>>> Sounds to me like the file you're feeding to autoconf has DOS line
>>>> endings in
>>>> it.
>>> Yes, this is correct. The AC_CHECK_SIZEOF macro does not work with
>>> -mno-cygwin unless there is a cygwin version of 'cat' on the path.
>>>
>>> Is there a standard way to resolve this problem?
>>
>> I'm not sure. I'm assuming not using '-mno-cygwin' is not an option?
>
> Here's the full story. I'm trying to build apr. It needs to be built
> with mingw in order to have thread support. It specifically disables
> thread support with cygwin. So, instead of getting the mingw
> environment, I'd like to use the cygwin environment cause I my build
> system builds many other packages.
>
> I can't figure out how to get past this problem. Any help at all would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> I even tried putting ~/bin/cat in my path, where cat does dos2unix and
> then calls /usr/bin/cat, but that didn't work either. I'm not sure why.
>
> I was sort of looking for a solution that was "clean".
Forgive me for being dense but why does the requirement to build apr with
-mno-cygwin mean that you have to run configure with it? OK, it's not
'clean' but what else am I missing?
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