From: tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de (Stipe Tolj) Subject: Re: Problems building lesstif 15 Jan 1999 04:15:19 -0800 Message-ID: <369E888E.30DA165B.cygnus.gnu-win32@uni-duesseldorf.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: SWarsMatt@aol.com Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com > I've tried building lesstif 0.87.0 with Cygwin. When I run "sh configure > --with-x-includes=/usr/X11r6.4/include --with-x-libraries=/usr/X11r6.4/lib" > configure tells me that it can't find the linker ld. I have C:\cygnus\cygwin- > b20\H-i586-cygwin32\bin in my path. I also have it mounted as /bin. Typing "ld > -v" prints out the version information so I know ld is in the path (the > Windows path, anyway). Why can't configure find ld? configure can't see your ld.exe since ld.exe returns a DOS style path. I had the same problem running the configure script of mysql-3.22.x. Simply search the text reported as error message within the configure file and look for a switch argument dealing with paths. Looks like this in the mysql config file: .... case "$ac_prog" in # Accept absolute paths. # Cygwin32 seems to need the C:\\* part since the previous does not work /* | A-Za-z:\\* | C:\\* | c:\\*) test -z "$LD" && LD="$ac_prog" ;; "") # If it fails, then pretend we aren't using GCC. ac_prog=ld ;; *) # If it is relative, then search for the first ld in PATH. with_gnu_ld=unknown ;; esac .... This should fix your configure problem. Regards, Stipe -- Stipe Tolj Cygwin Porting Project Department of Economical Computer Science University of Cologne, Germany http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~tolj - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".