build from source

[Angelica Perduta]

>   CCLD   libgsttag-1.0.la
> /bin/grep: C:/dev/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/erlkoenig/libffi_install/lib/libffi.la:
> No such file or directory

I'm still stuck on this and I tried version 1.0.4 but get the same
result. I also had a go at reverse engineering the autotools generated
scripts but all I achieved was reinforcing my aversion to 'clever'
systems. :(

I did following command which reveals several .la files have built in
dependency on libraries in that user folder but it didn't find the
string anywhere else so I really do wonder where it's coming from
since I'm building from source...

grep -r erlkoenig /

reveals:

C:/dev/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/erlkoenig/libffi_install/lib/libffi.la
C:/dev/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/erlkoenig/libiconv_install/lib/libiconv.la
C:/dev/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/erlkoenig/glib_install/lib/libgobject-2.0.la
-lgthread-2.0 -lffi
C:/dev/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/erlkoenig/glib_install/lib/libgthread-2.0.la
C:/dev/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/erlkoenig/glib_install/lib/libgmodule-2.0.la
-lglib-2.0 -lws2_32 -lole32 -lwinmm -lshlwapi
C:/dev/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/erlkoenig/glib_install/lib/libglib-2.0.la
-lintl C:/dev/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/erlkoenig/gettext_install/lib/libintl.la
-liconv'

appearing in...

/local/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstcoreelements.la:dependency_libs=
/local/lib/libgstbase-1.0.la:dependency_libs=
/local/lib/libgstcontroller-1.0.la:dependency_libs=
/local/lib/libgstnet-1.0.la:dependency_libs=
/local/lib/libgstreamer-1.0.la:dependency_libs=
/local/lib/libxml2.la:dependency_libs=' -lz
C:/dev/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/erlkoenig/libiconv_install/lib/libiconv.la
-lws2_32'

So nobody else here has seen this problem then?