RE: RE: [ros-dev] mingw32-make erros in rbuild

[Murphy, Ged (Bolton)]

>   -----Original Message-----
>  From: tobitosso [mailto:[e-mail]] 
>  Sent: 26 October 2005 15:24
>  To: ReactOS Development List
>  Subject: RE: RE: [ros-dev] mingw32-make erros in rbuild
>  
>  
>  
>  --- Ge van Geldorp <gvg(a)reactos.org> wrote:
> >   That's the problem probably. When you use
> > MSYS,
> >  "make" will use its shell
> >  program to execute subcommands. The shell doesn't
> >  understand backslashes.
> >  Remove MSYS and CygWin from your path and try again.
> >  
> >  Gé van Geldorp. 
>  The backlslash problem can be easily solved by editing
>  the Makefile. Line 230: 	SEP = \$(ROS_EMPTY);
>  replace it with 	SEP = /$(ROS_EMPTY). MinGW, MSYS and
>  perhaps even Windows itself understand using / instead
>  of \.  
That's not a solution, it's a nasty hack!

>   Then the build process works until using
>  Makfile.auto is used. I think replacing / with \ in
>  Makefile.auto in MinGW on Windows is coded in the
>  rbuild sources. 
>  This is senseless as I wrote above. 
You couldn't be further from the truth. It actually makes a great deal of
sense. 

>   Please remove these lines because then, I will be
> able
>  to build the other parts of ReactOS, too. If you don't
>  want to change the files in SVN-Repository first,
>  please send the changed sources to me per e-mail. 
The rbuild code is fine, it's your environment which is wrong.

Listen to what Ge is telling you!




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