David Billinghurst wrote:
> Another data point. My normal build process on windows is a
> cygwin/msys hybrid. This worked for me a long time ago and I have
> never changed
>
> On cygwin:
> cvs update -dp
> copy the maxima tree to a build location
> "sh bootstrap' in the build tree
>
> On msys, in the build tree:
> ./configure
> make
> make check
>
> This still works. However, if run "sh bootstrap" under MSYS then I
> get sed errors when I run configure, suggesting that one of the files
> generated by the MSYS bootstrap process is broken. I will investigate
> further.
>
There is a problem with the MSYS generated configure script. i can
reproduce the sed errors by copying this one file into a directory tree
with a cygwin bootstrap.