Re: [PATCH 4/4] Windows: MSYS Autotools doc disabling hack

[Ray Donnelly]

This is all, of course, with sources from git.

If configure contains the line continuation ('\') in AC_CONFIG_FILES, then we end up with this lovely construct in configure:
    "config/Makefile") CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES config/Makefile" ;;
    "\") CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES \" ;;
    "doc/Makefile") CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES doc/Makefile" ;;
(I tested with configure.ac containing both styles of line-endings and both with the same result).

If we attempt to make doc, we end up with
make[2]: Entering directory `/gnumake/make/doc'
Updating ./version.texi
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `fdl.texi', needed by `make.info'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/gnumake/make/doc'

Which seems to be very similar to this old bug report:
http://osdir.com/ml/gnu.make.windows/2005-03/msg00077.html

Cheers,

Ray.

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:41:53 +0100
> From: Ray Donnelly <address@hidden>

>
> This is just for reference for anyone who wants to build gnumake on
> Windows. I don't want it to be applied as the real bugs are in Autotools.

What are the bugs, and how do they manifest themselves?