Re: 2.4 Release in 24hrs

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > The above is produced today after re-installing MinGW/GCC using the
> > latest TDM GCC installer (with GCC 4.5.1).  It is similar to what I
> > observed before.  The test suite used to work so I assume that the
> > issue is due to some change in the past few months, such as in
> > Automake.
>
> Yeah, this is a GNU make 3.80 bug exposed by Automake 1.11, fixed by
> Automake 1.11.1, and re-exposed in git Automake (I am working on a fix
> that tries to avoid this and another bug about long $(TESTS) on MinGW).

The 'make' used is GNU make 3.79.1.  There is a 'mingw32-make' which 
is GNU make 3.82, but does not seem to work under MSYS.  This is what 
happens:

$ mingw32-make 
mingw32-make: *** No rule to make target `/uhome/src/gnu/libtool-head/Makefile.am', needed by `/uhome/src/gnu/libtool-head/Makefile.in'.  Stop.

I tried building my own GNU make 3.82 under MinGW and the result 
behaves the same as 'mingw32-make'.

The timestamps of the files show that no work should be performed but 
it seems like the target dependency has been reversed.

Bob
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