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RE: More i686-pc-cygwin woes.
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- Subject: RE: More i686-pc-cygwin woes.
- From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 13:11:11 -0500
> I force this to occur by specifying the regular "correct" stuff in
> configure and using a line like this for the 'make install':
>
> make tooldir=/usr install
>
> This causes cygwin to avoid using i686-pc-cygwin directory.
Would it be better if we had our own version of autoconf that when it was
dealing with a cygwin target set tooldir appropriately? And yes I am
volunteering.
We could then autoconf the packages that referred to this directory and
release a new tar ball and source for those packages. Also if a user had
complained of a third-party package that was errantly placing files in
/usr/i686-pc-cygwin, we could direct him to:
autoconf
./configure --prefix=/usr i686-pc-cygwin
make
make install
Which isn't that abnormal anyway.