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Re: Trunk build problems
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Nick Kelsey <nickk at ubicom dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:42:20 -0500
- Subject: Re: Trunk build problems
- References: <0bff01c2a542$c47742d0$f601a8c0@nkelseyxp>
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:36:08PM -0800, Nick Kelsey wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I think its time for a gripe as the trunk has been going downhill rapidly
> over the last week or so.
>
> <gripe>
>
> Things I have noticed over the last week:
>
> - Configure in src doesn't do any sub directories any more (linux or
> cygwin).
They will be configured when you run make. This is not a problem. If
they aren't being, then it is a problem.
> - Under cygwin, libtermcap attempts to be build (which doesn't exist). This
> causes a circular make problem as it can't change into the directory so does
> a make in src again.
Don't know about this one. Sounds like there's an incorrect dependency
somewhere.
> - If you do an incremental make in src it reconfigures a number of
> directories *every time* (both linux and cygwin).
This is a problem. I sent Nathanael mail about it yesterday, again.
> - Readline doesn't link under cygwin.
>
> My snapshot from about 2 weeks ago works fine - these are all new problems.
>
> I am interested if these are known problems and under active investigation.
The last one must be new with the 4.3 merge...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer