Re: [mpir-devel] cannot compile mpir on windows xp - several errors

2013-05-06 Thread developerchris
I managed to get mpir to compile. The sh issue is either as you say a problem with msys or something peculiar to my machine. I could get past it by locating the rogue sh process and killing it. I am working on resolving the cause of it. The problem with python failing the version test magicall

Re: [mpir-devel] cannot compile mpir on windows xp - several errors

2013-05-03 Thread Bill Hart
Either way, this just doesn't sound like an MPIR problem but a MinGW/msys one. You might want to ask on their list about random stalls. On later versions of Windows you must disable all antivirus software and run the MinGW/msys shell in administrator mode to avoid this. But to my knowledge the la

Re: [mpir-devel] cannot compile mpir on windows xp - several errors

2013-05-03 Thread gmail
As far as I recall there was nothing in the logs that indicated what the error was with the 32 bit word test. it just stopped at the line that said it was testing it. I have tried rebuilding again so the log was deleted. so I cant be 100% sure. By running in safe mode and totally disabling M

Re: [mpir-devel] cannot compile mpir on windows xp - several errors

2013-05-03 Thread sisyphus1
From: gmail checking for assembler local label prefix... L checking for assembler byte directive... .byte checking how to define a 32-bit word... configure: error: cannot determine how to define a 32-bit word At that point configure quits There should be an error message in the config.log

Re: [mpir-devel] cannot compile mpir on windows xp - several errors

2013-05-03 Thread Bill Hart
Hi Chris, configure is automatically generated by autotools from configure.in. There is no need to go digging through the tests that it runs. If configure doesn't run on your machine, then something is very wrong. Bill. On 3 May 2013 03:21, Chris Hamono wrote: > I have realised that mpir is a

Re: [mpir-devel] cannot compile mpir on windows xp - several errors

2013-05-02 Thread Chris Hamono
I have realised that mpir is as far as I am aware the only project I have compiled so far that uses configure. At least the only one that has caused issues thus bringing it to my attention. It may be an issue with msys and sh.exe although the last isssue (cannot determine how to define a 32-bit wo

Re: [mpir-devel] cannot compile mpir on windows xp - several errors

2013-05-02 Thread Bill Hart
I'm afraid I haven't seen this before. If it is randomly doing this, then there must be something wrong with the environment. Sorry I don't think I have any specific advice. Bill. On 2 May 2013 14:33, gmail wrote: > > When attempting to configure using the latest mingw install i get the > foll

Re: [mpir-devel] cannot compile mpir on windows xp - several errors

2013-05-02 Thread gmail
When attempting to configure using the latest mingw install i get the following error... checking for assembler local label prefix... L checking for assembler byte directive... .byte checking how to define a 32-bit word... configure: error: cannot determine how to define a 32-bit word At th

Re: [mpir-devel] cannot compile mpir on windows xp - several errors

2013-05-02 Thread gmail
I am using mingw 4.4. I disabled virus protection this time it froze at configure: creating ./config.status the config.log ends at configure:28571: creating ./config.status I'll try and compile it outside of the kde environment and see what happens... DC On 02/05/2013 9:54 PM, Bill Hart wr

Re: [mpir-devel] cannot compile mpir on windows xp - several errors

2013-05-02 Thread Bill Hart
Hi, is this using Cygwin, MinGW or MSVC? If you are getting random hangs, it could be due to an antivirus program or an old version of MinGW. Bill. On 2 May 2013 12:51, developerchris wrote: > > The main error is a particularly odd one > > when using the emerge system to compile mpir on wind

[mpir-devel] cannot compile mpir on windows xp - several errors

2013-05-02 Thread developerchris
The main error is a particularly odd one when using the emerge system to compile mpir on windows xp it just hangs at seemingly random places while configuring yasm Sometimes it will fail complaining that python is too low a version. it requires > 2.4 and my version is only 3.3 I am pretty sur