building on cygwin

[Jim Holmlund]

On 10/2/2012 5:50 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> From this I can only conclude that the problem is caused by your old version of cygwin. 
Or maybe by my use of make 3.82 instead of 3.82.90 that you are using.  I downloaded 3.82.90-1 from here
    http://mirror.symnds.com/software/cygwin/release/make/

I just unpacked it and ran the make.exe and it did nothing.  Maybe it has to be 'installed' in order 
to work.
- jjh


> 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
>>