X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <503D52E7.7050505@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 02:23:19 +0300 From: Tasos Laskos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Build script error (libiconv + custom prefix) References: <503C0C1A DOT 9040608 AT gmail DOT com> <503CDCEE DOT 2000607 AT cygwin DOT com> <503CE265 DOT 9000800 AT gmail DOT com> <503D215B DOT 2060705 AT cygwin DOT com> <503D23CE DOT 6010804 AT gmail DOT com> <503D299D DOT 9030408 AT cygwin DOT com> <503D2EA8 DOT 8090704 AT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <503D2EA8.8090704@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple