On 7 March 2011 13:18, Michael Stahl <michael.x.st...@oracle.com> wrote:

> On 05/03/2011 16:27, Knut Olav Bøhmer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is happening here?
> > Why is bash not able to access /tmp
> > Why is there noe make target at the end?
> > Building OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 on Windows XP
>
> > cd ./wntmsci12.pro/misc/build/mozilla/
> > <http://wntmsci12.pro/misc/build/mozilla/> &&
> > /cygdrive/f/mozilla-build/msys/bin/bash -i    -c "cd
>
> what is executed here is not cygwin bash, but msys bash, which is AFAIK a
> native win32 program that cannot understand cygwin paths such as /tmp.
>

By build now stoped in at instsetoo_native because it did not understant
"TEMP=C:\tmp"
Easy fix, but, the building procedure on Windows is really unstable..


>
> > F:/OOO320/nss/./wntmsci12.pro/misc/build/mozilla/security/nss
> > <http://wntmsci12.pro/misc/build/mozilla/security/nss> && make
> > nss_build_all"  && F:/cygwin1-7/bin/touch.exe
> > F:/OOO320/nss/./wntmsci12.pro/misc/build/so_built_nss
> > <http://wntmsci12.pro/misc/build/so_built_nss>
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
>
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> > cd ../../nsprpub/out ; make
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> > make[1]: Entering directory
> > `/f/OOO320/nss/wntmsci12.pro/misc/build/mozilla/nsprpub/out
> > <http://wntmsci12.pro/misc/build/mozilla/nsprpub/out>'
> > make[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
>
> no idea what is going wrong here; perhaps a consequence of all the
> previous errors?
>
> because i don't build on windows if i can at all avoid it, i don't really
> have a good idea what may cause this.  perhaps you have some variable like
> TMPDIR, TEMP or TMP pointing to /tmp?
>
> try setting these to some mixed-notation value e.g. "f:/cygwin/tmp", see
> if that helps...
>
> [btw, the general dev@ooo list is a better place to ask about build
> problems than the API list.]
>
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