On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 06:15:47PM -0800, Paul Rohr wrote:
> Sam et al,
>
> I've just done my first cvs update since last June, and am having problems
> right out of the box. This is the same environment I've been using for Abi
> development since the beginning -- NT 4.0, VC 5, Cygwin B19.
>
> I thought I'd seen traffic earlier that Win32 command-line builds were
> working for expat, so I must be missing something. I did check the build
> instructions on the site, but they're pretty clearly out of date. So far,
> here's all I can infer from the ultra-cryptic messages:
>
> 1. make realclean doesn't
That's really weird. From my output, it goes to zlib and libpng
before anything else.
> 2. libtool may not exist -- where do I get it?
The libtool shell script is generated by configure. You don't need to
get anything. Try running ./configure in the expat directory, and see
if it creates a file called libtool.
> 3. the filename doesn't get passed to the compiler
That seems to be a problem with the seeming newline in the command
line. Try fixing the libtool problem and see if it goes away.
> 4. why is it building an xmlparse.lo target?
>
That's what libtool calls the object file. If you don't want to know
how libtool works, don't worry about it. If you do, ask me, or read
http://sources.redhat.com/autobook
> Any suggestions? Sorry for acting like a newbie, but I'm short on time for
> learning the necessary automagic stuff.
Well, the host that Tom is running tinderbox on has Cygwin 1.1.8. You
might try upgrading that. Other than that, I'm not sure.
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