Re: Building SVN source failures: VPATH builds; Cygwin

[Gavin Smith]

On 10 January 2017 at 00:31, Hans-Bernhard Bröker <address@hidden> wrote:
> Of course not.  The change is applied to Makefile.am:

 tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/lib/Makefile.am is a generated file as well.


> The error messages themselves were quite weird:
>
> In file included from
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/x86_64-cygwin-threads/CORE/perl.h:932:0,
>                  from ../../../../texinfo/tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/MiscXS.xs:7:
> ./lib/string.h:128:25: Fehler: expected »)« before »void«
>                          void *, (void const *__s, int __c, size_t __n),
>                          ^
> In file included from
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/x86_64-cygwin-threads/CORE/perlio.h:59:0,
>                  from
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/x86_64-cygwin-threads/CORE/iperlsys.h:51,
>                  from
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/x86_64-cygwin-threads/CORE/perl.h:3691,
>                  from ../../../../texinfo/tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/MiscXS.xs:7:
> ./lib/stdio.h:241:26: Fehler: expected »)« before »int«
>  _GL_CXXALIAS_SYS (fgetc, int, (FILE *stream));
>                           ^
> ./lib/stdio.h:256:26: Fehler: expected »)« before »char«
>  _GL_CXXALIAS_SYS (fgets, char *, (char *s, int n, FILE *stream));
>
> [...and a whole lot more like that]

I reproduced this from a fresh svn checkout:

libtool: compile:  cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I../../../../../tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/lib -I.. -g -O2 -MT printf-parse.lo
-MD -MP -MF .deps/printf-parse.Tpo -c
../../../../../tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/lib/printf-parse.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o
.libs/printf-parse.o
In file included from ../../../../../tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/lib/printf-parse.c:66:0:
./string.h:128:25: error: expected ')' before 'void'
                         void *, (void const *__s, int __c, size_t __n),
                         ^
./string.h:133:28: error: expected ')' before 'void'
 _GL_CXXALIASWARN1 (memchr, void *, (void *__s, int __c, size_t __n));
                            ^
./string.h:134:28: error: expected ')' before 'void'
 _GL_CXXALIASWARN1 (memchr, void const *,
                            ^
make[7]: *** [printf-parse.lo] Error 1

I will investigate more later.