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Subject: Re: configure error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in ../.. 	"../../winsup/cygwin"/../..
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On 19/07/2010 16:29, Ryan McLeod wrote:
> I get the above error when I am trying to cross-compile openswan for
> cygwin as laid out here:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00175.html
> 
> The only thing i do differently is:
> 
> ../../winsup/configure --prefix=/myprefix/cross
> --target=i686-pc-cygwin --without-headers \
> 
> --with-newlib --disable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++
> 
> changes to:
> 
> ../winsup/configure --prefix=/myprefix/xelerance/cross/win2k
> --target=i686-pc-cygwin --without-headers \
> 
> --with-newlib --disable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++
> 
> The prefix change is mentioned as that in the openswan documents, but
> considering i only go up one directory from winsup
> and into a build directory from there, not sure why he specified
> ../../winsup. I did have to copy install-sh, config.guess and

  It's bad advice.  Use an absolute path to configure, and be sure to build in
a directory that is parallel to (rather than a subdir of) the source tree.

> ../../winsup. I did have to copy install-sh, config.guess and
> config.sub into the winsup directory, as i was getting configure
> errors then with the install-sh. 

  That shouldn't be necessary either.  The top-level copies should be the only
ones.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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