[Box Backup] autogen code

[Nick Knight]

I wanted to use cygwin to build it but to move onto the porting. I have =
been using the cygwin perl to generate the autogen stuff.

-----Original Message-----
From: boxbackup-admin@fluffy.co.uk [mailto:boxbackup-admin@fluffy.co.uk] =
On Behalf Of Ben Summers
Sent: 14 October 2004 16:16
To: boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Box Backup] autogen code


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 - this seems to be the simplest way in getting perl and =

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

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

> the correct directory then run perl and the relevant perl file, but=20
> comes up with "No such file or directory".
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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 =

> that is required
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> 2/ fix the cygwin issue - I know people have build under cygwin before =

> - 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



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