TCL(Tool Command Language) Scripting :: tcl8.5 build with msys


	tcl8.5 build with msys Hi, I tried building Tcl/Tk in msys (windows) and outside the source tree (something like): cd mydir; c:/home/rene/tcl8.5/win/configure make It does not work because of ":" was used as separator in the "VPATH" variable list. After changing to ";" everything work fine. Have I missed something? Is there a better/other way to do. Btw. the same issue is in the TEA building system. rene rene wrote: > I tried building Tcl/Tk in msys (windows) and outside the source tree > cd mydir; c:/home/rene/tcl8.5/win/configure > make > [but it didn't work] Invoke configure like this: /c/home/rene/tcl8.5/win/configure Msys is a funny blend of windows and unix; sometimes things are a little odd, but there's usually a way. More troublesome is if you've got directories with spaces in in the path or the working directory. That can cause real annoyance (least it has done for me in the past) as many Unix-derived scripts aren't robust against that sort of thing; Unix culture has frowned upon non-graph characters in filenames for, well, longer than I've used computers. Of course, if they'd used Tcl instead, they would not have had problems but that's a whole 'nother story. :-) Donal. Donal K. Fellows schrieb: > rene wrote: > > I tried building Tcl/Tk in msys (windows) and outside the source tree > > cd mydir; c:/home/rene/tcl8.5/win/configure > > make > > [but it didn't work] > Invoke configure like this: > /c/home/rene/tcl8.5/win/configure Thanks for the help. Now it works (see also "Announce kbs system" here). But it is still troublesome to use different ways "C:" in tcl and "/c" otherwise. And the make documentation is also for ";" in windows. rene