> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:21:21 +0100
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: building individual ports via MinGW
>
> On 2014/10/19 08:09, Kenneth Westerback wrote:
> > On 19 October 2014 07:29, R . <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > i know that m4 comes bundled together as part of the OS and typically
> > > only gets built every build of OpenBSD, but is there a way to compile
> > > just the m4 under MinGW?? i only need the binaries, no need for the
> > > manuals or things like that.
> > >
> >
> > I would think
> >
> > 1) Get the source tree.
> > 2) cd /usr/src/usr.bin/m4
> > 3) make clean; make obj; make
> > 4) take your obj/m4 to wherever it needs to go.
> >
> > is sufficient. I ignore any complications due to trying this under
> > MinGW since I still have nightmares from my brief exposure to it.
> >
> > .... Ken
> >
>
> This isn't a complete method, but in general both ports and the
> base OS should honour CC in the environment, so you can use this to
> select a different compiler.
>
looks like GNU's make and OpenBSD's bmake have a few incompatibilities
preventing me to start build process.
looking for a bmake that runs on windows.... then again if there was one,
chances are there is also an m4 that runs on windows...
