[nhc-bugs] Problems building hmake

[Malcolm Wallace]

Bryn Keller <brk@jenkon.com> writes:

> I'm trying to build hmake, so I can build HaXml. I'm running a Windows 
> 2000 system with the latest Cygwin (as of this morning) and GHC-5.04.2. 
> I'm having some trouble with the cygwin path that's passed to GHC during
> the build process:

> So I did this:
> 
> mount c:\\temp /temp
> cd /temp
> make clean
> ./configure
> 
> and edited the path (BUILDDIR) in config.cache to reflect this new 
> situation. However, the path that it's passing to GHC is still the old 
> /cygdrive path. How should I correct this?

I suggest that, you completely remove the existing build tree, then
having mounted c:\\temp as /temp, unpack the hmake tarfile again to
get a fresh copy of the build tree, and then run ./configure from
the beginning.

Regards,
    Malcolm