Re: VPATH of the form C:/foo

2007-12-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Philmart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Christopher Faylor-27 wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:36:45PM +0100, Benoit Sigoure wrote: ... This does raise the question of why you'd be using a cygwin version of make if you need to use colon paths. ... When using eclipse with CDT plugin and th

Re: Make on XP - shell selection?

2007-10-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting grischka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Earnie Boyd wrote: >make CVS as is : >7.09 seconds > > make CVS with per command path search : >2.81 seconds > > Surprised? No, you didn't reboot first. Earnie Is this serious or a joke? If

Re: Make on XP - shell selection?

2007-10-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting grischka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: make CVS as is : 7.09 seconds make CVS with per command path search : 2.81 seconds Surprised? No, you didn't reboot first. Earnie ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mail

Re: Make on XP - shell selection?

2007-10-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Yongwei Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 21/10/2007, grischka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We can initialize SHELL either fixed to COMSPEC, or fixed to "sh", optionally from the environment (SHELL or MAKESHELL), or based on PATH search as currently (which I think is evil, though). As 'default

Re: Make on XP - shell selection?

2007-10-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: It all worked perfectly until I installed a compiler that put a sh shell on my path. Since then all my makefiles are broken. Bad business. Is there a reason the compiler needs the PATH set? Make appears to insist on using the sh shell buried on my

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: (Note that above I said "almost" exactly like Posix, and that's because a Posix filesystem will not show the file in `ls' after it was deleted like that, while Windows does. All the rest is similar.) You're also assuming that something else hasn't

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: And I have to disagree strongly with the "black": In msysGit (which brings its own minimal version of MSys), it is very smooth. FLI, I designed MSYS so that this could be done without interfering with a normal install of MSYS. The only thin

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: SVN certainly sounds as easier for use on Windows than GIT. There are native windows SVN command line tools available. I use those nearly daily as well as CVS. I haven't found a good reason to switch from CVS to SVN though. I doubt that I would

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:45:47 +0100 (BST) From: Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Alex Riesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], make-w32@gnu.org The problem is that on Windows, you cannot kee

Re: Make CVS HEAD version build out of the box

2007-10-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:11:07 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I think you need both. I don't build with WINDOWS. I build with UNIXY SHELL on WINDOWS. But then you don't need config.h.W32.template, do you?

Re: Make CVS HEAD version build out of the box

2007-10-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This doesn't seem to be as much of an issue on Windows where the max path length appears to be much more strictly defined. I wouldn't count on that as always going to be. Earnie ___ Make-w32 mailing list

Re: Make CVS HEAD version build out of the box

2007-10-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Yongwei Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 03/10/2007, Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:19:20 -0400 > From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Quoting Yongwei Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I can con

Re: Make CVS HEAD version build out of the box

2007-10-02 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Yongwei Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I can confirm that the PATH_SEPARATOR_CHAR setting in the config.h by my ./configure procedure is wrong. Earnie, maybe you want to have a check whether this issue exists in the MinGW build. I hope not. I don't remember that I provided the last versio

Re: Make CVS HEAD version build out of the box

2007-10-02 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:16:36 +0800 From: "Yongwei Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, make-w32@gnu.org +#! /bin/sh +VERSION=`sed -n 's/^AC_INIT(\[GNU make\],\[\([^]]\+\)\].*/\1/p' configure.in` +sed -e "s/%PACKAGE%/ma

Re: Make CVS HEAD version build out of the box

2007-10-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:12:41 +0800 From: "Yongwei Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: make-w32@gnu.org (Slapping myself) sorry for my folly. With your information I successfully built Make under Cygwin: autoreconf -i ./configure --build=i686-pc-mingw32 C

Re: nmake to make

2007-09-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Christian Buhtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is there a way to convert nmake related makefiles to gnu-make (e.g. MinGW make) related makefiles? Using Google I found http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg05924.html which is a fairly recent thread. If that doesn't suit you I se

Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered - SOLVED (??)

2007-06-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Daniel Mendyke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In answer to your question about where my version of 'make' came from, I installed Dev-Cpp on my system which included 'make' 3.80. Then I used the package installation feature of Dev-Cpp to upgraded to 'make' 3.81, using the package found at http://

Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

2007-06-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: From above: This program built for i686-pc-mingw32 This isn't the MSYS version of make. Then maybe it's a MinGW one. IIRC it is built from unmodified GMAKE source and uses the MSVCRT.DLL runtime but the Makefile to create make.exe is generated

Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

2007-06-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:24 -0700, Daniel Mendyke wrote: Can anyone suggest reasons why make is failing? My suspicion is that it's a shell problem. The shell you're using to run the command by hand is not the same shell make is invoking to run the comm

Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

2007-06-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:24:48 -0700 From: "Daniel Mendyke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm running windows XP with Gnu make 3.8.1 C:\tmp$ make --version GNU Make 3.81 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software;

Re: Environment variables in makefiles with DOS

2007-05-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What I've thought about is using low ASCII values for these tokens. This would still allow makefiles to be written in UTF-8, with the exception of some special characters. We would need to look at the possible characters and choose the ones we want caref

Re: Environment variables in makefiles with DOS

2007-05-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Greg Chicares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: # Quoting doesn't help. VPATH = "My Source Files" But VPATH is one of those variables that refers to file paths. Would it be possible to tokenize the space with something like %20? So my foo.mk has the quoted path with a space and internally the

Re: Environment variables in makefiles with DOS

2007-05-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Yikes! I'd prefer a general solution that would work on other platforms as well, not only on DOS/Windows. After all, file names with blanks find their way into Posix platforms also. Especially when they are copied there from windows. Earnie ___

Re: Environment variables in makefiles with DOS

2007-05-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:27:34 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is there a windows API call to convert the filename to 8.3? Yes, GetShortPathName. See: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364989.aspx Perhaps a

Re: installing make on windows

2007-05-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting wafa Berrayana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: installing the make utility. I download the soft mingw32-make-3.81-1-src.tar, Try the mingw32-make-3.81-1.tar instead. It has a prebuild of the -src.tar. Earnie ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.or

Re: Environment variables in makefiles with DOS

2007-05-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Another hack is to use the 8.3 version of the filename, but this is unreliable at best. Is there a windows API call to convert the filename to 8.3? Perhaps a windows hack could store the filename in 8.3? Earnie ___

Re: Native WIN32 GNU make?

2007-05-08 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Mark Txx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Any other "native" WIN32 solutions? such as mingw This is the one I would suggest. Along with MSYS (also supplied by MinGW) which is a fork of an older version of Cygwin tailored to a mingw32 build environment. Earnie

Re: Problems with echo. (echo period)

2007-04-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:35:49 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C:\>echo. > echo. 'echo.' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Can't reproduce this. Are

Re: Problems with echo. (echo period)

2007-04-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Aaron Shatters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2 - using "echo. 2>&1" which tricks make into thinking this should be handled by the shell? I hate to be the bearer of bad news but ``echo.'' isn't a valid command. C:\>dir echo* Volume in drive C is QWEST Volume Serial Number is 6077-E76C Directo

Re: Problems with echo. (echo period)

2007-04-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Aaron Shatters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Really, TAAHOALOP using a native windows GNU make. Ok, ya gots me there. There Aint A . something something Lot Of Point? TAAHOALOP "There Are A Hell Of A Lot Of People" Maybe? Exactly. Earnie ___

RE: Problems with echo. (echo period)

2007-04-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 24 April 2007 12:35, Earnie Boyd wrote: Quoting Dave Korn: On 24 April 2007 07:43, Benoit Sigoure wrote: and the whole community will benefit from this very slight improvement. Nope, only the minority of win32/cmd.exe users. An awful

RE: Problems with echo. (echo period)

2007-04-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 24 April 2007 07:43, Benoit Sigoure wrote: and the whole community will benefit from this very slight improvement. Nope, only the minority of win32/cmd.exe users. An awful lot of people never use make with any other than a POSIX shell With

Re: performance issue with cgywin make

2006-12-08 Thread Earnie Boyd
g apples to apples? You might want to find some real measuring software. I've also noticed that times can be skewed by the caching within the drive controller as well. Earnie Boyd -- Please post responsibly: * Use text posts instead of html; many list members just trash mail with html. * Do n

Re: performance issue with cgywin make

2006-12-08 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:59:05 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: make-w32@gnu.org Alternatives to stat using the windows API though may be a different issue for the native version. You won't be able to use those altern

Re: performance issue with cgywin make

2006-12-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
f stat shouldn't be a concern for this list. Take it back to the cygwin users list please. Alternatives to stat using the windows API though may be a different issue for the native version. You won't be able to use those alternatives for Cygwin or MSYS. Earnie Boyd -- Please po

Toplevel Makefile.am patch

2006-11-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
2006/11/29 Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Makefile.am (check-regression): Change to the srctest directorycreated in the previous ln -s command instead of the test directory. Index: Makefile.am === RC

Re: Problem with escaped parens

2006-11-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Benoit Sigoure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 5 foo: C:/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Cmake/Foo/Bar/some.file Try modifying this to: foo: C\:/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Cmake/Foo/Bar/some.file or perhaps foo: "C:/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Cmake/Foo/Bar/some.file" Earnie Boy

Re: Problem with escaped parens

2006-11-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
win build of Make 3.81? What if you quote the object of target all? Like this: all: "C:/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/CMake\2.4/share/cmake-2.4/Modules/TestBigEndian.c" Please do watch the linewrap. Earnie Boyd -- Please post responsibly: * Use text posts instead of html; many list members

Re: Bug in the expansion of $(MAKE) in GNU make 3.81

2006-11-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: FWIW, I think the MSYS build should also pick up the patch that solves this, which is why I conditioned it on HAVE_DOS_PATHS, not on CYGWIN. Me too! Just need a moment of to do it. Earni

Re: Bug in the expansion of $(MAKE) in GNU make 3.81

2006-11-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
ill cause issues. Do you have a sample Makefile that gives this? Earnie Boyd -- Please post responsibly: * Use text posts instead of html; many list members just trash mail with html. * Do not use multipart mime to send both text and html versions. * Do not top post replies; post inline with the par

Re: Possible bug with 3.81?

2006-10-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
s of Make? If not, perhaps the invoked programs cause this somehow. And let us know which build you're using. Does it contain the patches found in the archives of this list? Is it native, Cygwin, or MSYS dependent runtimes? If native are you using it within the Cygwin or MSYS shell

Re: Compile group of modules

2006-10-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
ke target 'make'. Stop. Anyone has an idea how to solve this problem? Get a real shell. See http://mingw.sourceforge.net/MinGWiki/index.php/MSYS for one possiblity. Earnie Boyd -- -- ** * The u

RE: Crash with recursive make

2006-10-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting John Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I don't know which version of the C runtime MingW links to. By default msvcrt.dll but you can specify one of the other version named ones at link time if you wish.

Re: Crash with recursive make

2006-10-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:46:27 +0100 From: "John Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: I then realised that the unique thing about my setup is that I'm building with VS 2005, so I recompiled make with VS 2003 and the crash no longer happens. I would suggest,

RE: Crash with recursive make

2006-10-09 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting John Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 07 October 2006 10:21, Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Investigating further, make is crashing in windows32_openpipe while > evaluating the expression: > >VERSION_STRING = $(shell cat $(VERSION_TXT)) > > where cat is a Windows native ver

Re: [Angelo.Graziosi: Problems with patched gnu make ? (was:Need Volunteers to test patch for gnu make)]

2006-10-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What am I missing? Sorry, it was I who was missing something. I was thinking other packages that use make, not make itself. Earnie Boyd -- -- ** * The user o

Re: [Angelo.Graziosi: Problems with patched gnu make ? (was:Need Volunteers to test patch for gnu make)]

2006-10-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
til configure scripts have caught up with the changes? Earnie Boyd -- -- ** * The user of this server has agreed to allow the use of a trailer in the* * mail that he sends for advertising purposes. This advertisment

Re: problems w/ make.

2006-09-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
e could be the issue. Try the following to see if it helps: mv Makefile Makefile.old tr -d '\r' < Makefile.old > Makefile Earnie Boyd -- ** * The user of this server has agreed to allow the use of a trai

Re: problems w/ make.

2006-09-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
\John Blaze\Desktop\net-irc>make makefile:306: *** multiple target patterns. Stop. There's something else at work here, because I cannot reproduce this problem. Perhaps spaces in the path names? Earnie Boyd -- Please post responsibly: * Use text posts instead of html; many list members

Re: Don't see any output to stdout from commands

2006-09-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Krzysztof Nosek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I didn't manage to think up anything better than that :-) Google for dsp2mak and/or dsp2make. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@g

Re: MSYS (not mingw) make 3.80 or 3.81?

2006-09-06 Thread Earnie Boyd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] archives. I'm working on upgrading the packages for the release candidate of the 1.0.11 version. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32

Re: mingw make problem

2006-08-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
ake from within the MSYS shell. Help is always appreciated. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32

Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

2006-08-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:45:59 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> I'm not sure if this is what you're saying but I wouldn't mind an option >&g

Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

2006-08-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:38:51 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For MPOV I would consider C:/absolute/path to be supported in all cases. Excuse my ignorance, but what is MPOV? MPOV == My Point Of View. Earni

Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

2006-08-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting "William A. Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: At 08:54 AM 8/18/2006, Earnie Boyd wrote: When the time comes, MSYS will mimick what Cygwin did. Cool, then both of them will work. Will MSYS Still try to convert / to the msys mount table? This cause trouble with dos command

Re: mingw make problem

2006-08-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
"b.c\"",...) Putting child 0x00a73ca0 (broken) PID 4015928 on the chain. Live child 0x00a73ca0 (broken) PID 4015928 /usr/bin/sh: -c: line 3: syntax error: unexpected end of file You're executing the Cygwin gcc from the MSYS shell which is more than likely

Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

2006-08-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
) I agree that the default should be with DOS paths, and (b) we need an option to turn DOS paths off only if the default behavior causes trouble in some situations. I'm not sure I like a soft option but maybe DOSPATHS=false to turn it off. I would still like the abov

Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

2006-08-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
n list, either.) For MPOV I would consider C:/absolute/path to be supported in all cases. However if SHELL != 'sh' then C:\absolute\path should be supported and \ loses its meaning as an escape character. FWIW, MPOV is based on experience with others having issues with Makefiles and MSYS

Re: mingw make problem

2006-08-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
the msys mount point. Only for the "native" binary. It isn't a "bad habit" it is a necessary one. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32

Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

2006-08-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
. There may be autoconf m4 filters for this already, you'll need to check. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32

Re: mingw make problems

2006-08-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
uses it. Remember the chars_sh and chars_dos thing that is switched at run time, that switch is triggered by the finding of sh.exe in the PATH. And that shouldn't change. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing

Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

2006-08-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
ing it up to the user. Is it the case that people might want to build a Cygwin version of make _WITHOUT_ DOS path support? That would depend on the end effect but possibly yes --without-dos-paths needs to be supported. Earnie Boyd http://shop.s

Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

2006-08-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:49:46 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The Cygwin build could (and probably should) use configure.in, but the > MinGW and MSVC ports don&#x

Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

2006-08-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: That one is for the DOS (a.k.a. DJGPP) port. The Windows ports use config.h.W32. Unless the Windows port is built using MSYS or Cygwin and then a config.h is generated during the configure process. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimit

Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

2006-08-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
gure if the MSYS shell is used. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32

RE: GNU make 3.81, Windows port [resend]

2006-08-14 Thread Earnie Boyd
, since the code already works and there are many still using win9x everyday. We can add a caveat to that in that those using gnu make on win9x must test the patches applied. A determination can be made later based on response from users. Earnie Boyd http://shop.s

Re: GNU make 3.81, Windows port [resend]

2006-08-14 Thread Earnie Boyd
stems such as Windows 95 that do not have the newer methods available. However, please feel free to submit your patches to the patch tracker for review. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://

Re: FWD: Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:53:06 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: help-make@gnu.org, make-w32@gnu.org I wanted to be able to use the ``native'' version of make with MSYS but I've found that if make create

Re: FWD: Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
native version. I'm working on releasing MSYS 1.0.11 which will contain an MSYS build of make-3.81. The solution for Cygwin and windows paths is to build a ``native'' version of make, name it differently than the Cygwin build and use that for the make files containi

Re: Bug in builtin function abspath

2006-06-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
' on any XP box. There is also something called ``reparse points'' or something like that. Sysinternals ``junction'' makes use of them. MS has something called ``linkd''. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___

Re: Problems with $(shell xxx) using uWin

2006-06-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
ples to try, I did without a hitch. BTW, Eli and Paul, I decided to give a good try to the native version of make working within the MSYS shell. I replaced the MSYS make with the 3.81 native build I did for James and did a make clean && make with good success. We'll

Re: Problems with $(shell xxx) using uWin

2006-06-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
and MSYS have an issue as well with executing the ``native'' make within it's environment. --8<-- FWIW: the basic problem is that I am making my C++ library sources available Open Source. And since Windows isn't going to disappear, I feel that, responsibly, they should be usable there as well. By a normal Windows programmer:-). Requiring him to install CygWin or UWin+GNU make is already pushing it; requiring him to manually patch the sources, then compile them from the command line, is definitly too much. (For information: the site with the sources is already up: http://kanze.james.free.fr, for those interested. The actual makefiles causing me the problems are in the code tree.) Please consider using MinGW and MSYS. We try to keep it small for this reason. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32

Re: Bug in builtin function abspath

2006-06-02 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 08:23:13 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IMO, make should not consider d:foo as a valid path even though the OS does. You mean in $abspath or everywhere? We were talking about the former; I'm no

Re: Bug in builtin function abspath

2006-06-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
n, I don't find _abspath or abspath documented and msdn.microsoft.com. Looking in my reference material I found _fullpath which is documented here http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/HTML/_crt__fullpath.2c_._wfullpath.asp watch out for

Re: UnxUtils, Unix tools on Win32

2006-05-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
isual C 6. No problem. I was hoping to do the same with other GNU tools but no luck so far. You should be able to take make-3.81 source and build it in MSYS using ./configure --prefix=/mingw && make. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32

Re: make does not stop on error

2006-05-08 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 11:45:26 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > looking for sh.exe along the PATH, which is quite close. What do you > suggest to do instead? use c

Re: make does not stop on error

2006-05-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: looking for sh.exe along the PATH, which is quite close. What do you suggest to do instead? use cmd.exe? If enviroment variable SHELL exists use its value otherwise use the value of COMSPEC unless the makefile sets SHELL explicitly. Earni

Re: make does not stop on error

2006-05-02 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Well, I'd say this is probably a bug in rxvt. Yes, and not likely to be fixed anytime soon. To workaround ``start /msys --norxvt''. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___

Re: Any active maintainers using MinGW/MSYS?

2006-03-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:55:35 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], make-w32@gnu.org It is a dream of mine that enough patchwork be accomplished to replace MSYS. Besides a native port of a Posix shell,

Re: Any active maintainers using MinGW/MSYS?

2006-03-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:03:15 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], make-w32@gnu.org I don't want MSYS to become Cygwin. Jonathan had asked how to build an MSYS version (using the MSYS runtime inst

Re: Any active maintainers using MinGW/MSYS?

2006-03-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:26:01 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, make-w32@gnu.org > >> 4) You'll need to replace the delivered config.guess and config.sub > >

Re: make 3.81rc1 / MSYS

2006-03-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
contains slashes I should remove all of them but one. I'll take a look at MSYS for this; but I'm not promising anything soon. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32

Re: Any active maintainers using MinGW/MSYS?

2006-03-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
the FSF project that maintains them before every release. I'd prefer not to keep locally modified versions if possible. You'll have to take that up with Red Hat; it is their source code modification. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32

Re: Any active maintainers using MinGW/MSYS?

2006-03-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
ion currently used in MSYS and CYGWIN is modified from the official release. I do not know what the modifications are but some of them add a --win32 and --unix switch. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32

Re: Any active maintainers using MinGW/MSYS?

2006-03-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
omplex applications for the native windows with the native gcc and native binutils. It provides a common environment similar to UNIX platforms that can execute configure and make without the hassles of needing to use other tools. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimit

Re: Any active maintainers using MinGW/MSYS?

2006-03-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
ely as a MinGW port without MSYS? Building a native make with MSYS isn't the issue. Using the native make within MSYS may be. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32

Re: make3.81-beta4 mingw not failing on error?

2006-03-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
hout MSYS in the PATH and use the CMD.EXE shell. If you still have problems then there is an issue with make; else it will be impossible for you to prove there is one. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-

Re: make-3.81-rc1 build error, msys 1.0.11, seg fault

2006-03-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
a snapshot exists is for others to take a look at making it work. Earnie Boyd http://shop.siebunlimited.com ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32

Re: w32 developers: please take a look at this bug...

2006-02-09 Thread Earnie Boyd
d in the bug report reasonable and a better idea? I think you're correct and the patch isn't required. Earnie Boyd This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _

Re: copy, timestamps

2006-01-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
ome option i can give to make "copy" update the time stamp? Is there something else i can do? The command "touch" does not exist. more msfile > msfile2 Earnie Boyd This message was sent us

Re: GNU make 3.81beta4 released

2006-01-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:01:01 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], make-w32@gnu.org >> If you just run from MSVC, and click Debug->Exceptions, you c

Re: GNU make 3.81beta4 released

2006-01-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
otherwise the Studio debugger will not understand the debug info produced by GCC, and all you can do is debug on the assembly level. Which isn't fun. Or you could just use gdb! The graphical Insight prebuild available from sf.net/projects/mingw. Earnie Boyd -

Re: W32 Warning disabled, and updated vcproj file

2006-01-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
res it; just like NOTEPAD!! :( Earnie Boyd This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32

Re: MSVC build test results

2005-09-08 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I guess this problem is because of the mix between MinGW/MSVC build and MSYS unix wrapping shell stuff. Yes. It is the reason that I had to supply an MSYS version of make and perl. I had hoped in the beginning to use native versions but I didn't h

Re: MSVC build test results

2005-09-06 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Does msys use some kind of variable setting to control this? Because the test suite strips out lots of environment variables. Not sure.. Earnie? No. Earnie ___ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org h

Re: win32 MSVC singal testing cmd.exe works MSYS does not

2005-08-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
On 11:31:49 pm 2005-08-28 "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > C:\msys\1.0\home\now3d>make -fmakefile_sig.mak > main > counting: > (I press ctrl+c) > make: *** [temp1] Interrupt > > C:\msys\1.0\home\now3d> > > Under MSYS ctrl+c still kills make.exe, leaving MSYS (rxvt.exe + > sh.exe) running

Re: WINDOWS32 "Signal 127" due to a path in quotes bug

2005-08-02 Thread Earnie Boyd
On 3:42:31 am 2005-08-02 Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Windows _does_ have the notion of process groups; what it doesn't have > is the concept of signals. Signals are emulated on Windows. > > So the issue here is how are the emulated signals delivered to several > programs that run

Re: WINDOWS32 "Signal 127" due to a path in quotes bug

2005-08-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
On 2:31:43 pm 2005-07-30 "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Previously we have discussed this: > > "Re: make signal text descriptions" > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/make-w32/2003-10/msg00023.html > > There are two cases where I think we should display a more accurate > error c

Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?

2005-07-13 Thread Earnie Boyd
On 12:31:01 pm 2005-07-13 "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > %% "Earnie Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > eb> Would it remove the tab or change it to a space? > > On a POSIX system it's removed. > > eb> As long a

Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?

2005-07-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
On 7:01:33 pm 2005-07-12 "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > %% Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ez> Yes, I think testing unixy_shell would be okay. > > Good stuff; so if !unixy_shell we want to go back to the old model, > where make would eat the backslash-newline pair befo

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