Thanks, this worked. I'll submit the defect report first chance I get.
On the assumption that the --prefix option below is the same as the "-P" option I already used with ./runConfigure, I just fast forwarded to step 3 (edit the makefile). There are two "prefix" variables, one all upper case, the other all lower. I changed both, but the all lower one is the one that did it. -----Original Message----- From: David Bertoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:41 PM To: xalan-c-users@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: building xalan on cygwin Will Sappington wrote: > Thanks Dave, that did the trick. At first I just modified the Makefile > and reran the make and got the same error so I went back and did a > runConfigure again, ran the make and everything built OK. > > There was another problem though with the install. When it tried to > create the 'lib' directory for the install, the path it was using had a > double slash at the beginning and mkdir failed with a "network path not > found" type of error. I've backtracked through as many of the makefiles > as I can and can't find how 'DESTDIR' in the line > $(MKINSTALLDIRS) $(DESTDIR)/$(libdir) > gets set. > > On the chance that rebuilding the makefiles with runConfigure might be > part of the problem I went back, wiped everything, patched the > (...)/Util makefile, and rebuilt the libraries from scratch with just > "make". That went OK, but then when I did a "make install" I got the > problem. Transcript below. And again, thanks much for all the help. > > <much build output snipped> > > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/cygdrive/c/proj/3rdParty/libs/xalan-c_1_10_0-C/xml-xalan/c/src/xalanc' > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > /cygdrive/c/proj/3rdParty/libs/xalan-c_1_10_0-C/xml-xalan/c > $ make install > make -C src/xalanc install > make[1]: Entering directory > `/cygdrive/c/proj/3rdParty/libs/xalan-c_1_10_0-C/xml-xalan/c/src/xalanc' > Preparing the directory structure for a build ... > mkdir -p ../../obj > mkdir -p ../../lib > mkdir -p ../../bin > make -C Utils prepare > make[2]: Entering directory > `/cygdrive/c/proj/3rdParty/libs/xalan-c_1_10_0-C/xml-xalan/c/src/xalanc/ > Utils > ' > mkdir -p ../../../nls > mkdir -p ../../../nls/include > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/cygdrive/c/proj/3rdParty/libs/xalan-c_1_10_0-C/xml-xalan/c/src/xalanc/ > Utils' > > make -C Utils locale > make[2]: Entering directory > `/cygdrive/c/proj/3rdParty/libs/xalan-c_1_10_0-C/xml-xalan/c/src/xalanc/ > Utils > ' > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `locale'. > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/cygdrive/c/proj/3rdParty/libs/xalan-c_1_10_0-C/xml-xalan/c/src/xalanc/ > Utils' > > make -C Utils install > make[2]: Entering directory > `/cygdrive/c/proj/3rdParty/libs/xalan-c_1_10_0-C/xml-xalan/c/src/xalanc/ > Utils > ' > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../../../nls/include/LocalMsgIndex.hpp > /cygdrive/c/proj/3rdParty/libs/xalan-c_ > 1_10_0-C/xml-xalan/c//src/xalanc/PlatformSupport > make -C XalanMsgLib install > make[3]: Entering directory > `/cygdrive/c/proj/3rdParty/libs/xalan-c_1_10_0-C/xml-xalan/c/src/xalanc/ > Utils > /XalanMsgLib' > mkdir -p //cygdrive/c/proj/3rdParty/libs/xalan-c_1_10_0-C/package/lib > mkdir: cannot create directory `//cygdrive': No such host or network > path OK, it's not very intuitive, but you need to provide a relative path for the prefix. I'm not sure why this was done, or if it's easy to fix, but it certainly is broken. For now, here's what you can do: 1. specify the prefix you want as a configure option to the runConfigure script: ./runConfigure -p cygwin -c gcc -x g++ -C --prefix=/cygdrive/c/proj/3rdParty/libs/xalan-c_1_10_0-C/package 2. Do the build (although you don't have to rebuild if you don't want to, since this won't affect the binaries. 3. Open Makefile.incl and search for the prefix you specified. You'll see something like this: prefix = /cygdrive/c/proj/3rdParty/libs/xalan-c_1_10_0-C/package/ 4. Just remove the leading "/" from the definition: prefix = cygdrive/c/proj/3rdParty/libs/xalan-c_1_10_0-C/package/ That should take care of the problem. Can you please create a Jira defect so we can track this issue? You can follow this link to create it: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANC Dave