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Bert Huijben commented on SERF-142: ----------------------------------- 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! > --------------------------------------- > > 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 *vita...@yourcmc.ru* -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)