Re: [gnome-db] autoconf/make issues under mSys/MinGW

["Vivien Malerba" <vmalerba gmail com>]

On 2/13/07, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 15:11 +0100, Brecht Sanders wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm still struggling to compile libgda under mSys/MinGW.
> > For those who are not familiar with this environment, it is a gcc
> > compatible environment for the win32 platform (also exists for Linux for
> > cross-compilation for win32), which has all the required tools for
> > compiling (sh, make, autoconf, gcc, ...).
> > I already made all the latest versions of depenancies of libgda.
> > The following compile issues I was able to work around, but these
> > probably still need a good final solution:
> >
> > ============
> >
> > file:       libgda/gda-parameter-list.c
> > problem:    compilation failed on unknow type "uint"
> > workaround: add "-Duint=guint" to CFLAGS
> > see also:
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-db-list/2007-January/msg00038.html
> > solution:   replace "uint" with "unsigned short"
> > status:     to be fixed
>
> Please put a patch for this (and anything else) in bugzilla.

I've modified that locally; it'll go with my next commit.

> > ============
> >
> > error:      /usr/bin/env: perl -w: No such file or directory
> > workaround: ln -s `which perl.exe` '/usr/local/bin/perl -w'
> > solution:   change autoconfiguration script to generate "#!/usr/bin/env
> > - perl -w"
> >             instead of "#!/usr/bin/env perl -w"
> > status:     to be fixed
>
> Could we have some more context for this error, please. Presumably it's
> some script that needs to not hard code it's perl path. That can be
> fixed.

Yes, in the GTK+ sources, the configure.in file defines PERL.

Cheers,

Vivien