From: Armel Le Bail (armel@fluo.univ-lemans.fr)
Date: Sat Oct 16 1999 - 11:45:51 CDT
Well, expecting non-Unix guys to succeed in cygwin
implementation and compiling Hypermail was stupid.
I tried , and waste my time, no surprise :
BASH.EXE-2.02$ sh ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN/
install -c
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for gethostbyname... (cached) yes
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for fcntl.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/time.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for size_t... (cached) yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... (cached) time.h
checking for strftime... (cached) yes
checking for mkdir... (cached) yes
checking for strdup... (cached) yes
checking for strstr... (cached) yes
checking for strtol... (cached) yes
checking for memset... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdio.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for pwd.h... (cached) yes
checking for arpa/inet.h... (cached) yes
checking for netdb.h... (cached) yes
checking for netinet/in.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/socket.h... (cached) yes
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
./configure: /bin/sh: not found
BASH.EXE-2.02$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
BASH.EXE-2.02$
So, if somebody (less stupid than me, that is easy) succeeded,
why not to make available the .exe ??
Armel Le Bail - Université du Maine, Laboratoire des Fluorures,
CNRS ESA 6010, Av. O. Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France
http://www.cristal.org/