[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Issue with MinGW Cross Build

[David Bruce]

Hi Matt,

The problem is that "make install" now includes a "chown root:games"
for the modifiable global word list - so you have to do "make install"
with sudo or as root, even if you are doing it within your home
directory.  There is nothing specifically wrong with the code that
deals with COPYING - it is just the first file that the NSIS builder
needs.

I have a little script I use called "ttwin.sh" that does the
cross-configure, cross-make, and cross-make nsis steps all in one fell
swoop.  If I do "sudo ./ttwin.sh" instead of just "./ttwin.sh" the
cross-build succeeds.

Hope that helps,

David

On 1/13/10, David Bruce <davidstuartbruce at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Matthew Trey <tux4kids at treyhome.com>
> wrote:
>> David, is the nsis build broken or am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> LicenseData: open failed "mingw32\doc\COPYING"
>
> It could be broken - haven't built it in a while.  I notice that the
> license filename below is "COPYING", rather than "COPYING.txt".  I
> don't remember exactly, but this may have been something I started to
> "fix" but left off in midstream.  We really should use names without
> extensions as our default (e.g. "README", "COPYING", "INSTALL") and
> only rename them to *.txt during the Windows build itself.  Most
> likely, I changed the name of the license file from "COPYING.txt" to
> "COPYING" and updated tuxtype.nsi.in accordingly, but perhaps the
> crossbuild still expects the file to be called "COPYING.txt" and so
> the file doesn't get copied into the temporary mingw32 directory.
>
> I'll look at it more when I get a chance.
>
> David
>