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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 23:10:46 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-noreply AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Building a MinGW build of aspell without much luck :(
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 11:04:06AM +0800, purpledinosaur wrote:
>Hi Rob, thanks for the reply. I've tried that configuration (i.e. having
>cygwin and mingw installed seperately and setting the path to include
>mingw's binaries first) but I kept getting the "libtool: compile: unable
>to infer tagged configuration" error.
>
>Anyhow, I've managed to get pass my original problem but am getting path
>problems in aspell while compiling the dictionaries. 
>
>This is really fustrating. Any ideas Rob?
>
>BTW, I tot I might share how I got pass my problem. I've checked and
>found the definition of opendir, readdir and closedir to exist in the
>lib libmingwex.a which was never included by the configure process.
>Hence the fix is to edit the gcc's specs file to include this lib
>whenever the -mno-cygwin switch is given. Is this considered a bug?

That would be a question for the mingw mailing list, I think.  I don't
know if they intended for libmingwex to be included by default or not.
Since it is new and gcc is old, it obviously isn't going to be included.

cgf

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