Re: 2.23.11 build failure on cygwin #1

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 13/08/2022 à 22:30, Marco Atzeri a écrit :
> Dear Developers,
>
> I am the Cygwin package maintainer for Lilypond and Guile
> latest 2.22.2 builds without issue.
>
> On the first tentative to build/package 2.23.x for Cygwin I hit two 
> different problems so I will report them separately
>
>
> first one is almost immediate
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> Making flower/out/library.a
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'out/lilypond.1', needed by 'man'. 
> Stop.
> make: *** 
> [/pub/devel/lilypond/lilypond-2.23.11-1.x86_64/src/lilypond-2.23.11/./make/generic-targets.make:6: 
> all] Error 2
> *** ERROR: make failed
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> a workaround is to replace on lily/GNUmakefile
>
>    HELP2MAN_EXECS = lilypond
> with
>    HELP2MAN_EXECS = lilypond$(program_suffix)
>
> the build completes but has the unwanted outcome of
> an extra ".exe" on the manual page
>
>   $ find lily -name "*.1"
>   lily/out/lilypond.exe.1
>
> so a different solution is welcome


Possibly this would be related?

commit cad8241c1339432a30dd0613b76b2245670bdb31
Author: Jonas Hahnfeld <hahnjo@hahnjo.de>
Date:   Sat May 14 22:15:47 2022 +0200

    mingw: Consistently append program_suffix

    This moves a patch from the release scripts to the proper GNUmakefile.


Jonas, any thoughts?