RE: Hypermail runs with cygwin on Win9x!

From: Armel Le Bail <armel_at_fluo.univ-lemans.fr_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 18:45:51 +0200
Message-Id: <9910161636.AA15615_at_fluo.univ-lemans.fr>

Well, expecting non-Unix guys to succeed in cygwin implementation and compiling Hypermail was stupid.

I tried , and waste my time, no surprise :

BASH.EXE-2.02$ sh ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN/ install -c
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for gethostbyname... (cached) yes checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes

checking for fcntl.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/time.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for size_t... (cached) yes

checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... (cached) time.h checking for strftime... (cached) yes

checking for mkdir... (cached) yes
checking for strdup... (cached) yes
checking for strstr... (cached) yes
checking for strtol... (cached) yes
checking for memset... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes

checking for stdio.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for pwd.h... (cached) yes
checking for arpa/inet.h... (cached) yes checking for netdb.h... (cached) yes

checking for netinet/in.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/socket.h... (cached) yes
updating cache ./config.cache

creating ./config.status
./configure: /bin/sh: not found
BASH.EXE-2.02$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. BASH.EXE-2.02$ So, if somebody (less stupid than me, that is easy) succeeded, why not to make available the .exe ??

Armel Le Bail - Université du Maine, Laboratoire des Fluorures, CNRS ESA 6010, Av. O. Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France http://www.cristal.org/ Received on Sat 16 Oct 1999 06:45:16 PM GMT