Re: Building on MinGW using MXE-built dependencies [WAS: Re: mxe-installer try 2]

[John W. Eaton]

On 06/11/2013 03:43 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On 06/11/2013 02:51 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> >
> > > Here I didn't even get as far as you did. I installed mingw + above
> > > dependencies, updated/upgraded, cloned mxe-octave.
> > > The mxe build breaks while building gcc.
> >
> > That's not currently expected to work. I've not been able to get gcc to
> > build for any native build setup. So you need to try with USE_SYSTEM_GCC
> > set to yes.
>
> Stupid me, I could have seen that myself, didn't think of reading that
> far into Makefile. Sorry.
>
> Anyway, I changed USE_SYSTEM_GCC to "yes" but now ./mk-dist insists on
> building gcc. How can I avoid that?
>
> Philip

Are you sure it is actually building GCC?  It will still unpack and run 
the build target, but if you look at gcc.mk, you'll see that when 
USE_SYSTEM_GCC is set to yes, it will only create a cmake configuration 
file, not actually build the compiler.  Fixing the Makefile to avoid 
unpacking the gcc tar file when it won't be used is on my list but I 
haven't done it yet.

jwe