Re: portable mingw/msys

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Den 27-09-2011 20:44, john blair skrev:
> Hi, I am trying to install mingw/msys (bash, autotools, and
> compilers)on one machine and use the installation on other
> machines. The only part I am stuck at is In the /etc/fstab file it
> has <windows installation path to mingw> /mingw For my use-case
> <windows installation path to mingw> is not fixed. What is fixed is
> mingw can be reached by ../.. from msys, and $MINGWPATH environment
> variable pointing to mingw path. /mingw/.. path is hard-wired in
> almost all the autotools scripts. Also, using a parameter such as
> $MINGWPATH in /etc/fstab doesn't work.

If you put mingw inside the msys dir it will be automounted without
the need to use fstab :) this way you can pretty much put it where you
want. Remember though that paths with spaces seems to still a be a
problem.

Ralph

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