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Re: Building Cygwin from CVS


On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 10:21:35AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jan 20 09:10, Cliff Hones wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > Before we do that can we please find out WHAT is actually wrong?  There
>> > is no description of the problem beyond the above.  I run the testsuite
>> > several times a day by cd'ing to winsup/testsuite so I know that works.
>> > Lets not make changes that may only be a cockpit error from one user and,
>> > especially lets not document actual bugs.
>> [...]
>> If I cd to src/winsup/testsuite and do "make check", I get:
>> 
>>   cliff@CliffW ~/cygbuild/src/winsup/testsuite
>>   $ make check
>>   make: *** No rule to make target `check'.  Stop.
>> 
>> which is hardly surprising, as there is no Makefile there:
>> 
>>   cliff@CliffW ~/cygbuild/src/winsup/testsuite
>>   $ ls
>>   CVS  ChangeLog  Makefile.in  README  config  configure  configure.in  cygload  cygrun.c  libltp  winsup.api
>> 
>> So that seems to be the problem.  Should there have been a Makefile in CVS, should
>> configure have made one, or is the FAQ wrong?
>
>The Makefile in testsuite is generated when `make check' is called from
>the parent winsup directory.  The reason is that the testsuite directory
>isn't added to the list of to configurable subdirectories in
>winsup/configure.
>
>So, on the first run, you have to call `make check' in winsup, every
>later run you can start from the testsuite dir itself.  Whether this
>qualifies as a bug, I don't know.  I'm used to it, so I didn't think
>about it until today.

I guess it is something that I'd rather fix than document in the FAQ.
I'll fix this.

cgf

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