Re: GSoC Enquiry: Improving binary packaging

[John Donoghue]

Message: 1 Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:31:00 -0400 From: "John W. Eaton" 
<address@hidden> To: Anirudha Bose <address@hidden> Cc: Octave 
Maintainers List <address@hidden> Subject: Re: GSoC 
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format=flowed On 06/08/2013 09:00 AM, Anirudha Bose wrote:
> > John, I read your update on cross-compiling update for MinGW systems
> > [1], and I think it is better to improve your work rather than
> > duplicating, like you said.
> >
> > I followed the instructions in your post but I am stuck with an error
> > while trying to build texinfo. Here is the log: http://pastebin.com/yaUwD9my
> I don't know what's causing that problem.  I'm not seeing it on my system.
>
> jwe

Not sure it is the actual cause of the problem, but it looks like it is 
not finding the cross compiler:
checking for i686-pc-mingw32-strip... no
checking for strip... strip
configure: WARNING: using cross tools not prefixed with host triplet
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for i686-pc-mingw32-gcc... no
checking for gcc... gcc