[pcre-dev] [Bug 1001] DJGPP 2.04 beta/Windows XP SP3 `config…

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Author: Allan J Mui
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Subject: [pcre-dev] [Bug 1001] DJGPP 2.04 beta/Windows XP SP3 `configure' script error
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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1001

Allan J Mui <mu8ja0i@???> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED





--- Comment #1 from Allan J Mui <mu8ja0i@???> 2010-06-26 02:30:53 ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> I am using DJGPP 2.04 beta on Windows XP SP3 and I have a small difficulty when
> installing 8.02. My options are "--enable-utf8 --enable-newline-is-cr
> --disable-shared --prefix=/dev/env/DJDIR --build=i686-pc-msdosdjgpp". The
> `configure' script runs but stops before creating the makefiles etc. Here is
> the output:
> (snip)...
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> gawk: ./confVMDvjR/subs.awk:1: BEGIN {\r
> gawk: ./confVMDvjR/subs.awk:1:        ^ backslash not last character on line
> config.status: error: could not create Makefile
> ...(snip).
> I am still able to build but I next have to manually edit the top level
> `config.site' script by changing the initial value of the variable `ac_cr' from
> the null string to '\r'. After changing the variable's initial value I run the
> `config.site' script and it creates the makefiles, etc.. Then I can run `make
> all' and the package builds normally. When I run the tests four of five tests
> fail. I am using a Perl external to DJGPP (AS ActivePerl version 1007). When I
> installed the same version using MinGW/MSYS the script did not raise this error
> so I suspect that it only happens in DJGPP on Windows XP systems. I have not
> tried to compile with Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition.


I downloaded version 8.10 today and it does not have this problem with the
`configure' script so I think it has already been fixed. I know now that I was
running the tests incorrectly; now I am using the `runtests.bat' script.


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