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<body>Ok, it seems to work :-)
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<div align="left">new patch attached</div>
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<div align="left">But it didn't work at first, and I don't know what I changed ( I downloaded fresh config.ac and regress/makefile.in)</div>
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<div align="left">But it works to me now</div>
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<div align="left">/Nicklas</div>
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2010-01-20 Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:<br />
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Nicklas Avén wrote:<br />
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>> Mark<br />
>> <br />
>> After a lot of trial and error I have a patch that works for me in MingW :-)<br />
>> <br />
>> first I tried to pass "pwd -W" as is, to makefile.in and let it make <br />
>> the path from there. I thought that was what you meant. But I didn't <br />
>> success so in the patch the path is made earlier so PWDREGRESS holds the <br />
>> path in itself instead of pwd-W<br />
>> Is that ok?<br />
>> <br />
>> If someone wants to try it:<br />
>> you have to run autogen.sh after applying the patch.<br />
>> <br />
>> <br />
>> /Nicklas<br />
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>I don't think we should make use of $(pwd) in this way, since as <br />
>implemented by your patch then PWDREGRESS is evaluated to the current <br />
>path at configure time, rather than at runtime which I suspect will <br />
>cause some confusion further down the line.<br />
><br />
>The configure.ac part is mostly correct, but I would expect it to look <br />
>like this, as per the original version:<br />
><br />
>dnl<br />
>dnl MingW requires use of pwd -W to give proper Windows (not MingW) paths<br />
>dnl for in-place regression tests<br />
>dnl<br />
><br />
>case $host_os in<br />
> *mingw*)<br />
> PWDREGRESS="pwd -W"<br />
> ;;<br />
> *)<br />
> PWDREGRESS="pwd"<br />
> ;;<br />
>esac<br />
><br />
><br />
>AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([PWDREGRESS])<br />
>AC_SUBST([PWDREGRESS])<br />
><br />
>After this, the changes to regress/Makefile.in should then be reasonably <br />
>simple, e.g.:<br />
><br />
># Where we put our regression installation<br />
>srcdir=$(shell @PWDREGRESS@)<br />
>REGRESS_INSTALLDIR=$(srcdir)/00-regress-install<br />
><br />
><br />
>HTH,<br />
><br />
>Mark.<br />
><br />
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