[CMake] mingw vs MSYS makefiles

[Andrea Crotti]

On 02/23/2012 10:55 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> On 2/23/2012 6:20 AM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
>>
>
> I don't think anyone really addressed your question.  Your question 
> seems to have taken on a whole new life....
>
> The problem seems to be that your cmake file is creating makefiles 
> that use a python program in them.  For some reason python is not 
> working from an msys shell for you.  You should debug that, and try to 
> figure out how to get a python that does work, or figure out why this 
> python is failing under msys.
>
> Moral of the story, don't depend on python in your build, use cmake 
> scripts if possible, or c programs that you build .... :)
>

Ideally yes, unfortunately it's not really possible to avoid the python 
call, without rewriting a lot of code in CMake/C (which is not a good idea).

I will check what is the requirement, if the MinGW make is fine then 
I'll just use that otherwise I'll debug the problem with the MSYS..