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Bert Huijben commented on SERF-142:
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I think the problem here was that there was a Windows python install. I would
guess a cygwin python would normalize paths the cygwin way.
> Not possible to build Serf under MinGW!
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>
> Key: SERF-142
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SERF-142
> Project: serf
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Serf Importer
> Labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect
>
> Hi.
> I've tried to build Serf under Windows using MinGW toolchain. It's impossible
> - the build fails with various errors. Why did you choose that SCons? I've
> tried to debug it and wasn't very impressed by the code - it's very complex
> and tightly coupled. And by the way, APR, APU, and OpenSSL build without
> problem under MinGW with their autotools. And all these libraries are way
> more complex than serf.
> The problem is: as you know, MSYS terminal is launched from something like
> "chroot" - i.e. / is in fact C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\ and you can't get out of it,
> you access C:\ as /c/. And SCons gets mad about this fact - it tries to
> normalize all paths, so for example it changes /usr/include/apr-1 to
> C:\usr\include\apr-1, and that's not correct, / isn't C:\! / is
> C:\MinGW\msys\1.0!
> Can you fix this problem in some way? I want to build Subversion using a free
> software toolchain, without using msvc.
> Original issue reported by *[email protected]*
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