Re: mingw configure failure detection

Peter Eisentraut said:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> This patch for configure.in detects the link failures in MINGW that I
>> and others have seen and warns the user they have to fix it up.
>
> I continue to object to these sort of patches if no one wants to bother
>  to contact the mingw maintainers about this problem.  Maybe they have
> a  better fix available?
>

I have already said I would follow it up. But the problem exists today and
shouldn't be left until we get an answer. Maybe it will take a week or a
month, or there will be no good answer at all.

All this does is issue a warning.

This problem has happened to a number of users. So far the reponse has
largely been 'fix it by hand and move on'. I think our reputation is and
ought to be better than that.

> Btw. test -e is not portable.

Since this would only be run under Mingw, where it does work, why does
that matter?

> And please use AC_MSG_WARN instead of
> "echo".
>

I guess Bruce can make this change.

cheers

andrew