building on cygwin

[Erik Joelsson]

 From this I can only conclude that the problem is caused by your old 
version of cygwin. I don't know of a "good" way to debug/trace that. I 
usually end up doing a bunch of $$(show ...) which sometimes works and 
sometimes not.

My cygwin says:
$ uname --all
CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 sthintel-ex01 1.7.15(0.260/5/3) 2012-05-09 10:25 
i686 Cygwin

and make:
$ make --version
GNU Make 3.82.90
Built for i686-pc-cygwin

/Erik


On 2012-09-28 18:17, Jim Holmlund wrote:
>
> The new build didn't work on my cygwin PC.
> My cygwin is old. Erik said he could build ok under cygwin.  Kelly 
> said to try a new cygwin which I am loathe to do.
>
>  I think I tracked the problem down to this code in IdlCompilation.gmk:
>> # Now create the dependencies for each idl target.
>> $$(foreach p,$$($1),$$(eval $$(call 
>> add_idl_package,$1,$$($1_SRC),$$($1_BIN),$$(patsubst 
>> $$($1_BIN)/%.idl.d,$$($1_SRC)/%.idl,$$p),$$p,$$($1_DELETES),$$($1_OLDIMPLBASES),$$($1_IDLJ))))
> Tracing code I added shows that this foreach never calls add_idl_pacakge.
> BTW, what is a good way to debug/trace something like that $$(foreach...?
>
> Here is my uname -a output:
>    CYGWIN_NT-5.1 fff 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin
>
> The make I am using is in /usr/bin, and make -v reports that it is
>    GNU Make 3.82
>    Built for i686-pc-cygwin
>
> The make I am using on solaris is 3.81 and it works ok.  So, I tried a 
> build on windows using 3.81 and the above problem went away.
>
> Thanks
> - jjh
>