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Re: [Monotone-devel] library build
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Zbigniew Zagórski |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] library build |
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Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:52:14 +0200 |
2008/9/28 Stephen Leake <address@hidden>:
> Markus Wanner <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Instead we should IMO simply rip out the still-bundled stuff (pcre,
>> sqlite, idna, botan) and adjust the Makefile cruft to build against
>> system provided libraries - as the vast majority of other software
>> does. Or how often did you encounter a 'configure' which doesn't
>> configure anything but leaves that task for 'make', making you fiddle
>> with aclocal in subdirectories if things don't work out as planned?
>>
>> Comments?
>
> I agree this is a reasonable goal, at least on platforms that have
> decent package managers.
>
> MinGW doesn't have a decent package manager, and I don't know where to
> get pcre for MinGW; I looked for that a while ago. I haven't looked
> for the others.
AFAIR, on properly configured mingw+msys
./configure --prefix=/mingw && make install
works like a charm for pcre-7.7.
However, i don't know if botan & sqlite builds natively on mingw32 without
tricks. I'll try to pefrorm some research on topic.
> We need to continue to support MinGW
Absolutely.
PS.
Again why this list doesn't set Reply-To header!?
Stephen: sorry for duplicate.
--
Zbigniew Zagórski
/ software developer / geek / happy daddy /
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