Re: Building on MinGW using MXE-built dependencies [WAS: Re: mxe-installer try 2]

[John Donoghue]

On 06/06/2013 07:16 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 06/02/2013 08:50 PM, John Donoghue wrote:
> > Ive been playing with trying to compile using mxe-octave on mingw this
> > weekend: MXE_SYSTEM=mingw MXE_NATIVE_BUILD=yes USE_SYSTEM_GCC=yes
> > I didn't get far :)
> > All the build-xxx tools seem to install ok, with the exception of flex,
> > so I skipped it and installed msys-flex.
>
> Hmm, I saw an error when building build-autoconf about the version of 
> m4.  Adding a build-m4 package (not yet checked in) seemed to get me 
> past that problem, but then building the build-autoconf package failed 
> with errors like this:
>
>   Making all in m4sugar
>   make[5]: Entering directory 
> `/c/Users/jwe/Desktop/mxe-octave/tmp-build-autoconf/autoconf-2.69.build/lib/m4sugar'
>
> autom4te_perllibdir='/c/Users/jwe/Desktop/mxe-octave/tmp-build-autoconf/autoconf-2.69'/lib 
> AUTOM4TE_CFG='../../lib/autom4te.cfg'         ../../bin/autom4te -B 
> '../..'/lib -B 
> '/c/Users/jwe/Desktop/mxe-octave/tmp-build-autoconf/autoconf-2.69'/lib 
>                       \
>                   --language=m4sugar            \
>                   --freeze            \
>                   --output=m4sugar.m4f
>   autom4te: freezing produced output:
>   autom4te:
>   ...
>   ... many more lines like this
>   ...
>   autom4te:
>   make[5]: *** [m4sugar.m4f] Error 1
>
>
> You are not seeing this problem?  I have no clue what's causing it.
>
> jwe

I had seen an issue with m4 being too old a version in msys - an update 
to latest msys m4 fixed the complaint.
I hadnt seen any issues since then with any of the build-xxxx packages, 
except flex for a non m4 issue which I mentioned earlier emails.