[Xapian-discuss] Building on Windows

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:29:19PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:01:09PM -0700, Craig Lee wrote:
> > That did the trick.
> > 
> > - making sure that the 'find.exe' in cygwin was found first
> > - using --prefix and setting it to a directory without spaces
> 
> I don't believe this second step is necessary - automake 1.8.3 fixed
> this problem and the Xapian 0.9.1 release was generated with automake
> 1.9.5.  If this really doesn't work we should tell the automake
> developers.

I tried specifying a prefix with a space on UNIX - automake handles it
correctly, but unfortunately libtool doesn't.  It seems this is a known
problem, but hard to fix.

Cheers,
    Olly