Re: Building SVN source failures: VPATH builds; Cygwin

[Gavin Smith]

On 9 January 2017 at 00:50, Hans-Bernhard Bröker <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I ran into some sizable obstacles trying to build current SVN sources of
> texinfo on Cygwin
>
> *) A VPATH build breaks in tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/lib, because the
> sed-as-a-preprocessor mechanism _silently_ fails to include c++defs.h &
> friends into the built headers, as they don't exist in $(builddir).  I
> prepended $(srcdir)/ to the definition of CXXDEFS_H & friends to fix this.

In tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/lib/Makefile? That is a generated file, so that
can't be the right fix.

I tried creating a distribution file (with "make dist") and making a
VPATH build (make build ; cd build ; ../configure), but it worked for
me. Can you send the error messages you get when you run "make"?

I don't know if this is a Cygwin problem in particular, or it it is
because I have files on my computer that should be tracked by SVN but
aren't.

> *) After that, MiscXS still failed to build because the source is intolerant
> of a case-sensitively challenged file system: there are two source files
> named MiscXS.c and miscxs.c, which resolve to the effectively _same_ object
> file.  I really think one of the two should be renamed.

Done.

>
> *) Later into the build, there's another VPATH build failure: help2man
> cannot extract help from texindex, because texindex itself is in
> $(top_builddir)/texindex, but its support files (texindex.awk, ...) are
> still only in $(top_srcdir)/texindex

This is strange because we never had this problem before and no-one
has touched texindex recently.