RE: Problem building Xerces 2.7.0 with Cygwin

-----Original Message-----
From: David Bertoni [mailto:dbertoni@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 1:43 PM
To: c-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Problem building Xerces 2.7.0 with Cygwin

Will Sappington wrote:

(snip)

>>  
>> 
>> export XERCESCROOT = c:/proj/3rdParty/libs/xerces-c-src_2_7_0

> Why are you using a DOS-style specification here?  I would recommend
you 
> use /cygdrve/c/proj/3rdParty/libs/xerces-c-src_2_7_0 instead.

This was the problem and I suspected it might be.  That's what I was
referring to when I said I would keep digging into it - trying other
path specifications.  I tried this because Cygwin seems to handle the
various path conventions on the command line and in scripts with no
problems.  It was just what I decided to try first.

(snip)

>> /cygdrive/c/proj/3rdparty/libs/xerces-c-src_2_7_0/src/xercesc
>> 
>> $ make
>> 
>> Makefile:73: *** target pattern contains no `%'.  Stop.
>> 

> I believe this is a result of the way you specified XERCESCROOT.

Indeed it was.  Thank you for the help.

-will