Thanks Hans and Tor for your quick help! I will try to get it to work with these patches.
Regards, Daniel On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Hans-Joachim Lankenau - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <a...@sun.com> wrote: > hi! > > see http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=108254 and cws aus112 > (http://hg.services.openoffice.org/cws/aus112/). > > tschau... > > ause > > On 01/11/10 15:15, Daniel B. wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> did anyone on this list manage to complete an OOo build using the new >> Cygwin version 1.7.1? >> >> I tried building OOO310m19, which was working for me using Cygwin >> 1.5.25, and after the update it fails. Looks like no files are copied >> to the solver directory which leads to an error while making the >> soltools module because the file stlport_vc71.lib could not be found >> by the linker. We dug a little deeper and found out that the problem >> lies in the deliver.pl script which indeed does not copy any files to >> the solver directory because copy_if_newer always returns 0. To make a >> long story short the ultimate cause of the problem seems to lie in the >> following hack for Cygwin on line 113 of deliver.pl: >> >> if ($^O ne 'cygwin') { # iz59477 - cygwin needes a dot >> "." at the end of filenames to disable >> $maybedot = ''; # some .exe transformation magic. >> } else { >> $maybedot = '.'; >> } >> >> >> The explanation why this hack is there can be found in >> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=59477. In short, >> appending a dot to the filenames in some cases prevents Cygwin from >> erroneously thinking files are there which really aren't (because the >> file "foo" and "foo.exe" are in some cases treated as the same file by >> Cygwin). Sadly, it looks like this hack does no longer work in Cygwin >> 1.7.x (as has also been noted by tml in the last comment for issue >> 59477), which I gues means that OOo can't be build with Cygwin 1.7.x >> at the moment. >> I tried just removing the hack but since the underlying problem in >> Cygwin with the ".exe transformation magic" still exists this doesn't >> fix the problem. >> >> So, just a heads up for anyone trying to use the new Cygwin version. >> Or maybe someone already has a solution for this? >> >> I will also open a new OOo issue for this problem. >> >> >> Regards, >> Daniel >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org
