Compiling aspell-src, no ld found

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 30.05.09 22:12:14, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 30.05.09 22:02:41, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > started building the win32libs from source and found that aspell seems
> > to expect "ld" as linker and hence complains when trying to build it
> > with msvc2008. Is that expected? 
> 
> Workaround: set LD=link.exe before running emerge aspell-src

Hmm, afterwards it fails to find dirent.h. Could it be that building some
of these msys-style packages actually needs mingw? It seems like mingw is
installed as a dep for msys, but isn't used for building the package then.

dirent.h is part of mingw, but apparently not msvc...

Andreas
 
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