[gvd-devel] Can not invoke GVD manual from the GVD IDE (Help | GVD Manual...) after successful build

[Alexei Lioubimov]

The message contains two items:
1) Invoking GVD Manual;
2) Building GVD from MS-DOS prompt (HOST type not guessed)


1) Yes. I've found out that one should avoid using //c... or /cygwin/c/...
to run make (make install) properly.
If somebody wants to install GVD somewhere outside the "Cygwin" tree -- the
better solution would be to mount the destination directory before the
./configure:
    $ mount -b //c/usr/local/gvd /gvd
    $ ./configure --prefix=/gvd

I've build and install the GVD! But after running GVD i can not invoke the
GVD Manual from menu:
GVD tries to open the IE with URL http://gvd/doc/gvd/gvd.html

What is workaround?
(You can say that it's not very serious problem, 'cause i can always load
gvd.html in the IExporer manually..., but nevertheless - ?)

2) So, i decided to build the GVD once again from the MS-DOS prompt (without
Cygwin) -- my attempt faild:
> sh
$p$g./configure
...
checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; you
must specify one
$p$g

What HOST type should it be??? (i tried i386-win32, i386-pc-mingw32msv, etc
all these are wrong )

Alexei Lioubimov