Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 07:07:42PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: building LyX using cygwin tools also requires patching the Qt sources, so a patch should also be distributed (and maintained...). Then that's a no-go as far as I'm concerned. (Not

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 07:07:42PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > building LyX using cygwin tools also requires patching the Qt sources, so > > a patch should also be distributed (and maintained...). > > Then that's a no-go as far as I'm concerned.

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use cygwin with the -mno-cygwin option to build a LyX package which runs without needing cygwin. I paste at the bottom an uuencoded tar archive I just noticed that this damn'd gmane interface horribly mangled the

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-03 Thread Angus Leeming
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK thanks Enrico, I'll take a look. I was under the impression that your method would need a cygwin installation a user but if you tell me that this is not mandatory. Maybe we could switch to your version altogether instead of the MSYS based

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Angus Leeming a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK thanks Enrico, I'll take a look. I was under the impression that your method would need a cygwin installation a user but if you tell me that this is not mandatory. Maybe we could switch to your version altogether instead

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-03 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK thanks Enrico, I'll take a look. I was under the impression that your method would need a cygwin installation a user but if you tell me that this is not mandatory. Maybe we could switch to your version altogether instead of the MSYS based

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-03 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm retired :) ;-) More seriously, how hard would it be to merge the two scripts into one? The thing is written as a series of subroutines anyway so it would just need a check on the build environment so that it could call the correct ones. Angus,

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-03 Thread Angus Leeming
Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: building LyX using cygwin tools also requires patching the Qt sources, so a patch should also be distributed (and maintained...). Then that's a no-go as far as I'm concerned. (Not that my concern matters :)) Angus

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I use cygwin with the -mno-cygwin option to build a LyX package which runs without needing cygwin. I paste at the bottom an uuencoded tar archive I just noticed that this damn'd gmane interface horribly mangled the

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-03 Thread Angus Leeming
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK thanks Enrico, I'll take a look. I was under the impression that your > method would need a cygwin installation a user but if you tell me that > this is not mandatory. Maybe we could switch to your version altogether > instead of the MSYS based

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Angus Leeming a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OK thanks Enrico, I'll take a look. I was under the impression that your method would need a cygwin installation a user but if you tell me that this is not mandatory. Maybe we could switch to your version altogether instead

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-03 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > OK thanks Enrico, I'll take a look. I was under the impression that your > method would need a cygwin installation a user but if you tell me that > this is not mandatory. Maybe we could switch to your version altogether > instead of the MSYS

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-03 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm retired :) ;-) > More seriously, how hard would it be to merge the two scripts into one? The > thing is written as a series of subroutines anyway so it would just need a > check > on the build environment so that it could call the correct ones.

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-03 Thread Angus Leeming
Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > building LyX using cygwin tools also requires patching the Qt sources, so > a patch should also be distributed (and maintained...). Then that's a no-go as far as I'm concerned. (Not that my concern matters :)) Angus

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-02 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I spent an awful lot of time trying to fix my msys install without success so I decided to give cygwin a try. There is a way to use cygwin environment with mingw without the -mno-cygwin option (see the mingw FAQ at the end of this email).

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-02 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use cygwin with the -mno-cygwin option to build a LyX package which runs without needing cygwin. I paste at the bottom an uuencoded tar archive I just noticed that this damn'd gmane interface horribly mangled the uuencoded archive. I am posting it

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-02 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello, > > I spent an awful lot of time trying to fix my msys install without > success so I decided to give cygwin a try. There is a way to use cygwin > environment with mingw without the -mno-cygwin option (see the mingw FAQ > at the end of

Re: Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-02 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use cygwin with the -mno-cygwin option to build a LyX package which runs > without needing cygwin. I paste at the bottom an uuencoded tar archive I just noticed that this damn'd gmane interface horribly mangled the uuencoded archive. I am posting

Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-01 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hello, I spent an awful lot of time trying to fix my msys install without success so I decided to give cygwin a try. There is a way to use cygwin environment with mingw without the -mno-cygwin option (see the mingw FAQ at the end of this email). The goal is to produce a package that will not

Trying to use Mingw and Cygwin without Msys

2006-03-01 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hello, I spent an awful lot of time trying to fix my msys install without success so I decided to give cygwin a try. There is a way to use cygwin environment with mingw without the -mno-cygwin option (see the mingw FAQ at the end of this email). The goal is to produce a package that will not