[mythtv] Fwd: Ticket #4397: win32 dependancy resolver and build script

Simon Kenyon simon at koala.ie
Tue Jan 1 19:43:08 UTC 2008


Simon Kenyon wrote:
> buzz wrote:
>  I'd consider this code now alpha, testers welcome...but expect bugs.
>
>  Next version will allow a "virgin" Win32 PC to get everything it needs
>  automatically, and will be more thoroughly tested.
>
> Ticket URL: <http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4397
>
> Buzz.
>   
> on line 573 you strip off the msys prefix with
>
> $t =~ s#^$msys##i;
>
> and then later on
>
> $cmd = "chdir $d2 && $msys/bin/tar.exe -jxvpf $t";
>
> but this generates an error:
>
> cmd:cddir C:\\MinGW\\ && C:/msys/1.0//bin/tar.exe -zxvph 
> sources/mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz
>
> not the missing / on the file passed to tar
> it then gets a file not found error
>   

fixed it by removing the / at the end of the msys variable and adding 
appropriate /'s where required in the script

also found another problemette.

their is a typo in line #118
the extensions for bash-3.1-MSYS-1.0.11.tar.bz2 don't line up
their was a gz by mistake.
--
simon



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