Well, seems that you are right and this problem has just gone away now.
I seem to have overwritten some dodgy version of m4 or autotools with ones
that work all the time (provided I use Unix line endings in configure.ac,
which I've set git up to do automatically now).
Sorry for the noise, I will
> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:52:03 +0100
> From: Ray Donnelly
> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
>
> I tried with various autoconf versions, including 2.65, and also with three
> different versions of m4.exe ( all from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Extension/m4/ ) with both
> dos and unix
I tried with various autoconf versions, including 2.65, and also with three
different versions of m4.exe ( all from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Extension/m4/ ) with both
dos and unix line-endings and each time ran into the same problem.
Eli, would it be possible to describe yo
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:24:42 +0100
> From: Ray Donnelly
> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
>
> This is all, of course, with sources from git.
>
> If configure contains the line continuation ('\') in AC_CONFIG_FILES,
> then we end up with this lovely construct in configure:
> "config/Makefile") CONF
This is all, of course, with sources from git.
If configure contains the line continuation ('\') in AC_CONFIG_FILES,
then we end up with this lovely construct in configure:
"config/Makefile") CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES config/Makefile" ;;
"\") CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES \" ;;
"doc/Ma
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:41:53 +0100
> From: Ray Donnelly
>
> This is just for reference for anyone who wants to build gnumake on
> Windows. I don't want it to be applied as the real bugs are in Autotools.
What are the bugs, and how do they manifest themselves?
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This is just for reference for anyone who wants to build gnumake on
Windows. I don't want it to be applied as the real bugs are in Autotools.
Best regards,
Ray Donnelly.
0004-Windows-MSYS-Autotools-doc-disabling-hack.patch
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