Gnupg-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 8

Alphax alphasigmax at gmail.com
Wed Sep 20 07:10:08 CEST 2006


C Yohman wrote:
> Carlo's instructions worked. Thank you to everyone else. It works,
> except it failed one test. Is that test important?
> 

It's a known issue with building on MSYS. The problem/fix is as follows:

> If you get 'FAIL: conventional-mdc.test' during the check phase of the
> build the problem is caused by dd.exe from coreutils-bin v5.3.0
> Sometimes the test passes sometimes fails.
> 

You will need the Cygwin version of dd.exe; you can get it from
coreutils-5.2.1.bin.zip at http://tinyurl.com/jrjmw (Yahoo Groups).

Mica has put up the relevant instructions and files at
http://blueness.port5.com/gpgcvs/ based on the trial-and-error that a
number of people went through to get "native" building on W32 to work.

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