Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-28 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 16 January 2014 14:26:41 Geert Janssens wrote: Gary, While looking at your changes I noticed you changed two lines in the vbs script. One is that you added my repository/branch in a comment. That's ok and makes it easier for others to start. The second is to install

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-18 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 17 January 2014 07:30:00 John Ralls wrote: OK Geert, I think I have what you want at http://www.greenwheel.com/publicFiles/rebase-patches.zip Let me know if this works for you. Not being a git expert, it's possible I've not quite done the right thing, but I think this

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-18 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 18/01/2014 09:53, Geert Janssens wrote: On Friday 17 January 2014 07:30:00 John Ralls wrote: OK Geert, I think I have what you want at http://www.greenwheel.com/publicFiles/rebase-patches.zip Let me know if this works for you. Not being a git expert, it's possible I've not

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-17 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 16/01/2014 15:38, Geert Janssens wrote: On Thursday 16 January 2014 15:06:55 Gary Bilkus wrote: On 16/01/2014 13:26, Geert Janssens wrote: Gary, While looking at your changes I noticed you changed two lines in the vbs script. One is that you added my repository/branch in

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-17 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 16/01/2014 13:23, Geert Janssens wrote: On Thursday 16 January 2014 12:14:49 Gary Bilkus wrote: So just to make sure I understand exactly what you need. 1. I should get the gnucash.git repository from git://github.com:gjanssens/gnucash.git 2. I should git branch -t mingw

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-17 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 17, 2014, at 5:57 AM, Gary Bilkus m...@gary.bilkus.com wrote: On 16/01/2014 13:23, Geert Janssens wrote: On Thursday 16 January 2014 12:14:49 Gary Bilkus wrote: So just to make sure I understand exactly what you need. 1. I should get the gnucash.git repository from

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-17 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 17, 2014, at 7:30 AM, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: On Jan 17, 2014, at 5:57 AM, Gary Bilkus m...@gary.bilkus.com wrote: On 16/01/2014 13:23, Geert Janssens wrote: On Thursday 16 January 2014 12:14:49 Gary Bilkus wrote: So just to make sure I understand exactly what

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-17 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 16, 2014, at 7:53 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Thursday 16 January 2014 07:49:53 John Ralls wrote: On Jan 16, 2014, at 5:23 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: 3. Apply your patches and ignore those that are already there is also

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-17 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 17, 2014, at 7:39 AM, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: On Jan 16, 2014, at 7:53 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Thursday 16 January 2014 07:49:53 John Ralls wrote: On Jan 16, 2014, at 5:23 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: 3. Apply

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 10 January 2014 17:41:15 Gary Bilkus wrote: On 10/01/2014 15:03, John Ralls wrote: On Jan 9, 2014, at 11:13 PM, Gary Bilkus m...@gary.bilkus.com wrote: Well, interestingly enough, the problem is not directly with the compiler optimizer. It's with the configure test for

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 16 January 2014 11:10:30 Geert Janssens wrote: Gary, Thanks for all your updates. Today I found some time to check which of your fixes I should still add to my windows branch, but got lost in your patch. It looks like you are generating a patch to be applied to the current

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 16/01/2014 11:43, Geert Janssens wrote: On Thursday 16 January 2014 11:10:30 Geert Janssens wrote: Gary, Thanks for all your updates. Today I found some time to check which of your fixes I should still add to my windows branch, but got lost in your patch. It looks like you are generating a

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 16 January 2014 12:14:49 Gary Bilkus wrote: So just to make sure I understand exactly what you need. 1. I should get the gnucash.git repository from git://github.com:gjanssens/gnucash.git 2. I should git branch -t mingw origin/mingw-rebasing and check out that branch 3. I

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
Gary, While looking at your changes I noticed you changed two lines in the vbs script. One is that you added my repository/branch in a comment. That's ok and makes it easier for others to start. The second is to install msys-patch. Is there a reason you do this in the vbs script and not in

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 16/01/2014 13:26, Geert Janssens wrote: Gary, While looking at your changes I noticed you changed two lines in the vbs script. One is that you added my repository/branch in a comment. That's ok and makes it easier for others to start. The second is to install msys-patch. Is there a

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 16 January 2014 15:06:55 Gary Bilkus wrote: On 16/01/2014 13:26, Geert Janssens wrote: Gary, While looking at your changes I noticed you changed two lines in the vbs script. One is that you added my repository/branch in a comment. That's ok and makes it easier for

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 16, 2014, at 5:23 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: 3. Apply your patches and ignore those that are already there is also correct. Then before committing anything it's worth considering which changes logically belong together and check these changes in in

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 16 January 2014 07:49:53 John Ralls wrote: On Jan 16, 2014, at 5:23 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: 3. Apply your patches and ignore those that are already there is also correct. Then before committing anything it's worth considering which changes logically

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-10 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 9, 2014, at 11:13 PM, Gary Bilkus m...@gary.bilkus.com wrote: Well, interestingly enough, the problem is not directly with the compiler optimizer. It's with the configure test for strncasecmp. This test fails on mingw in its current incarnation because guile uses a standard test for

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-10 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 10/01/2014 15:03, John Ralls wrote: On Jan 9, 2014, at 11:13 PM, Gary Bilkus m...@gary.bilkus.com wrote: Well, interestingly enough, the problem is not directly with the compiler optimizer. It's with the configure test for strncasecmp. This test fails on mingw in its current incarnation

RE: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem

2014-01-09 Thread Gary Bilkus
Hmm, The problem appears to be with the compiler optimiser doing something too aggressive, If I manually recompile guile with -O0 instead of -O2 the problem seems to go away. This could be caused by one of the new optimisations in the more recent versions of gcc in which case it could start to