Re: Building SVN source failures: VPATH builds; Cygwin

[Hans-Bernhard Bröker]

Am 10.01.2017 um 23:41 schrieb Gavin Smith:
> Thanks for getting to the root of this. I've untracked those files and
> the Makefile files as well under tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/lib. Hopefully that
> will work, but it's possible that I've missed some: there are other
> gnulib files elsewhere in the source which also may be incorrectly
> tracked by SVN. I don't know of any easy way to know which files are
> generated.

Well, FWIW I've locally removed these files, relative to r7614:

D       doc/version-stnd.texi
D       doc/version.texi
D       gnulib/lib/arg-nonnull.h
D       gnulib/lib/c++defs.h
D       gnulib/lib/warn-on-use.h
D       texindex/texindex.awk
D       tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/lib/Makefile
D       tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/lib/stddef.h
D       tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/lib/wchar.h

Maybe you need to change usage of gnulib in SVN sources to a more 
dynamic approach, e.g. bootstrap it all from scratch in autogen.sh, like 
idutils' bootstrap script does it.

> That makes sense. I think this problem has never come up before
> because it only occurs when doing an out-of-source build directly from
> the SVN sources. I would guess if it was built as a distribution first
> ("make dist"), or not done as an out-of-source build, the problem
> wouldn't occur.

This could only happen if SVN holds generated, but un-distributed files. 
 That can only be wrong.