Re: building findutils (was Re: xargs missing in beta 16 release?)

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: David Jeffers <http://www.redrose.net/~jeffers>
 > Date: Tue  Oct 22, 12:17pm
 >
 > >>>>> "Robert" == Robert  <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert> writes:
 > 
 >     Robert> I did the above, but I still didn't get a makefile:
 > 
 >     Robert> no checking for strftime... ./configure: 12786404: No such
 >     Robert> file or directory conftest*: No such file or directory no
 >     Robert> checking for strspn... ./configure: 12786404: No such file
 >     Robert> or directory conftest*: No such file or directory no
 > 
 >     Robert> Any ideas?
 > 
 >     Yeah, this is a PATH problem - .configure can't locate
 >     your include files. configure uses a variable called
 >     'ac_dir' which assumes a standard Unix installation
 >     FIRST and then tries to get the information from your
 >     $PATH environment variable.
 >  
 >     This issue is the NUMBER ONE cause of problems for people
 >     who are unfamiliar with Unix and then can't get Cygwin stuff
 >     to work properly.
 > 
 >     So unless you have Cygnus installed "correctly" (meaning the
 >     compiler and its tools can find everything they look for)
 >     not much is going to compile. Old hackers like me :) know how
 >     to "force" things to work, but for the uninitiated it's a
 >     nightmare...
 >    
 >     These tools after all are for gurus and programmers and
 >     not newbies. I have no idea whether or not you have any
 >     experience with beta releases and development tools but
 >     without a foundation in Unix and programming its going to
 >     be rough.
 >     
 >     My advice would be to check the gnu-win32 mail list or
 >     the web page on how to set up your installation. Then
 >     you make sure the compiler works correctly. Configure
 >     only generates a makefile if the compiler knows what its
 >     doing. 
 > 
 >     If none of this works send me your $PATH statement and
 >     directory structure.
 > 
 >     David Jeffers	    
 > <http://www.redrose.net/~jeffers>

I do happen to be a Unix hacker and I had no idea from the output that it
was a PATH problem!  Regardless, I thought I had set-up everything correctly
because I could successfully compile and link (g++).

Perhaps I hadn't set-up GCC_PREFIX_EXEC to be correct, but I thought I had.
I'll double-check.

I've just been having tons of problems with environment variables and making
sure they all get initialized.  I really don't understand how I can set-up
environment variables dynamically when I log-on to Windows NT -- it seems that
one must know how to write BATch files, and I have absolutely no experience
in this...

Thanks for all your help so far.