Re: autoconfi warnings

On 13/12/12 10:30, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> | Is installing a newer version of msys/mingw an option? The version I
> | have here has autoreconf version 2.68, which I expect would just work.
>
> Interesting.  I had assumed that we used autoreconf from inplace/mingw/bin.  But there is no autoreconf there.  So in fact the build system is using it from c:/mys/1.0/bin.  Is that right?
>
> We had all these version-skew problems between MSYS and our build
> system, which we beautifully resolved by including a tar-ball of
> guaranteed-compatible msys binaries in the GHC source repo (and GHC
> distributions).  The C compiler is there, the linker.  Why not
> autoreconf??

All the build tools are installed separately, we only have the compiler 
tools in the repository.

> I have been to the msys/mingw install page http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started, downloaded mingw-get-inst, and run it.  It lets you decide what to install.
>
> If you choose "MSYS basic system" you don't get autoreconf.
> If you choose "MSYS developer toolkit" you do get autoreconf, in c:/mingw/bin. But you get a lot of other developer-toolkit stuff too.

The wiki page is up to date I think:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows

it tells you what to select, including the developer toolkit.  The 
installation process is pretty smooth (much better than it used to be).

Cheers,
	Simon