possible libtool bug blocking builds of Cygwin setup.exe

[Shaddy Baddah]

Hi Peter,

On Apr 13, Peter Rosin wrote:
> On 2013-04-13 02:31, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> On 13/04/13 09:15, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> </snip>
>>>> Have I stumbled on a real problem?
>>>
>>> This all sounds suspiciously like libtool bug 14022, where the reporter
>>> had confused --build and --host. How did you run configure?
>>>
>>
>>
>> I'm emulating what is in setup/bootstrap.sh:
>>
>> $ ../cygwin-setup/configure --build="i686-pc-mingw32" --host="i686-pc-mingw32" -C
>
> Since you had POSIX paths with a distinct Cygwin touch, I guess we can
> stop blaming Libtool. You are apparently cross-compiling from Cygwin to
> MinGW and should drop your --build argument and thus let config.guess
> do its thing. I.e. stop lying to configure.
>
> Or build with MSYS where the above --build and --host are true.
>
> I guess the bootstrap script also needs some love if you have read it
> right. I haven't read it at all.

You are correct, dropping the --build argument was the correct action. I
apologise for blaming libtool. I was confused and therefore only
suggested it was a possibility. Thankfully it was not.

-- 
Thanks,
Shaddy

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