Re: [Mingw-msys] Problem with MinGW/msys build of GNUstep make

[Earnie Boyd]

Paul Butcher wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 18 Jul 2002 13:41, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >
> > Hmm...  How is the path name formed within the script?  I will note that
> > the /tmp path is a mount point to the value of the TMP windows
> > environment variable.  Do you have a TEMP windows environment variable
> > set?  If so, what is the value?
> 
> TEMP is set same as TMP in autoexec.bat.
> 
> However ... looking through the configure script in more detail I note that
> temporary files are written to /tmp, which as you say is mounted by msys to
> windows TMP directory.  It is then trying to call 'mktemp' to form a unique
> temp directory name - due to my path it's possible this picked up the cygwin
> 'mktemp' which may have returned the incorrect format path to msys 'sed'.  I
> will check this out later when back on my Windows machine.
> 

If it is as you say and mktemp from Cygwin was used then the /tmp would
most likely have been converted to the Win32 native path.  My
documentation for MSYS warns you to remove Cygwin from the PATH.

Earnie.