building on cygwin

[Jim Holmlund]

On 10/2/2012 11:53 AM, Tim Bell wrote:
> On 10/02/12 11:31, Jim Holmlund wrote:
>> 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
>
> What does 'ldd' report?  Maybe this newer make.exe is expecting to find other updated libraries.
>
> Or try 'cygcheck -hv ./make.exe'
>
It doesn't tell me anything useful.  It uses a couple of cygwin dlls as would be expected.
- jjh

> I recall going through this dance long ago with JDK7 and a special Cygwin make-3.80:
> https://blogs.oracle.com/TimBell/entry/building_a_href_http_openjdk1
>

>
>>> 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
>>>>
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