On 03/24/2010 02:41 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Hi Developers,
> 
> this is to report a problem while building grep 2.6 and to give possible
> solution.
> 
> When the execution of the makefile comes to build main.c I get the
> following messages (sources were untarred
> in /export/home/freeware/sources/grep-2.6, executables were build
> in /export/home/freeware/objects/grep-2.6):
> 
>       .
>       .
>       .
>         CC       main.o
>       /export/home/freeware/sources/grep-2.6/src/main.c:41:20: getopt.h: No
> such file or directory

Hmm, I could not reproduce this on cygwin-1.5, which is another platform
where the system getopt.h is deficient.  Which platform are you on?

> 
>       ln
> -s /export/home/freeware/objects/grep-2.6/lib/getopt.h 
> /export/home/freeware/objects/grep-2.6/src/getopt.h
>  2>&1

Yes, that's a simple hack to fix the issue, but I'd really like to
understand why it is happening in the first place.  Would you mind
repeating the failing case with 'make V=1' so we can see whether there
was a missing -I directive on the gcc command line?

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Eric Blake   [email protected]    +1-801-349-2682
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