[Box Backup] autogen code

[Ben Summers]

On 13 Oct 2004, at 23:20, Nick Knight wrote:

> Hello
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> I am looking at the autogen parts of the box backup distro, the only=20=

> real parts that I can see at the mo that is required for win32 is the=20=

> autogen code. The main script is having problems under cygwin in=20
> producing them =96 this seems to be the simplest way in getting perl =
and=20
> all the relevant environment through to generate the relevant files =96=20=

> or so I thought.
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> I bombs out when it tries to generate the autogen files (the main bit)=20=

> perl (which is prob my weakest language) does a system call to cd into=20=

> the correct directory then run perl and the relevant perl file, but=20
> comes up with =93No such file or directory=94.
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> It all looks sensible so not sure what is going on.
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> I have two options
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> 1/ Create a new bare script which only does the autogen as this is all=20=

> that is required
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> 2/ fix the cygwin issue =96 I know people have build under cygwin =
before=20
> =96 so does anyone know what the issue is here?

Which perl are you using? The ActiveState port, or the cygwin version?

Are you trying to build under cygwin, or attempting a port?

Ben