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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 02:23:19 +0300
From: Tasos Laskos <tasos.laskos@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Build script error (libiconv + custom prefix)
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On 08/28/2012 11:48 PM, Tasos Laskos wrote:
>>
>> I already tried your script on a machine with Cygwin installed but
>> without iconv and saw the same complaints from configure in your build
>> script.  There are other configure flags for this package which could
>> help if you want to experiment with them (assuming you haven't already).
>> But also doing what the configure script recommends solves the problem.
>> If you're content to do that, then you have a solution.  If you're not
>> (as I expect you aren't) and the configure flags don't help, then I'd
>> recommend talking to the package authors about the bump in the
>> configure process you're noticing.
>>
>
> Well, I guess depending on libiconv isn't that bad since it's pretty
> much universally installed.
> I'll give another shot to sorting this out but if I don't it's not the
> end of the world.
>
> Thanks for the help Larry.
>

I finally gave up and decided to use the Cygwin packages and everything 
seems to be working fine.

One question though. how do you run a Linux command from Windows?
I tried C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c "ls -la" but it doesn't work in Cygwin.

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