Re: [PATCH] COPYING and copying.c

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>]

> > +# When DJGPP Make runs on MS-DOS, it downcases all file names, so
> > +# it doesn't find COPYING, and wants to make it...
> > +copying.txt:
> > +       test -f copying.txt || ln COPYING copying.txt
> 
> This bit won't work when building in a separate directory.
> I'm also not sure about the ``ln'' command. configure.in contains stuff
> to set ``LN_S''.

Then how about the following changes?  They seem to work for me.


2000-03-03  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>

	* Makefile.in (copying.c): Depend on copying.txt, not COPYING.
	(copying.txt): New target, a link to COPYING.
	(LN_S): Define.

--- gdb/Makefile.i~0	Tue Feb 22 10:52:06 2000
+++ gdb/Makefile.in	Fri Mar  3 13:52:30 2000
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
 RANLIB = @RANLIB@
 DLLTOOL = @DLLTOOL@
 WINDRES = @WINDRES@
+LN_S = @LN_S@
 
 # If the user configured GDB to include the TUI, the name of the tui
 # library goes here.
@@ -911,9 +912,19 @@
 doc/gdb.info:
 	cd doc; $(MAKE) gdb.info $(FLAGS_TO_PASS)
 
+# When DJGPP Make runs on MS-DOS, it downcases all file names, so
+# it doesn't find COPYING, and wants to make it...
+copying.txt:
+	test -f copying.txt || \
+	  { test "$$LN_S" = "ln -s" && \
+	    ln -s $(srcdir)/COPYING copying.txt; } || \
+	  cp -p $(srcdir)/COPYING copying.txt 2>/dev/null || \
+	  ln $(srcdir)/COPYING copying.txt 2>/dev/null || \
+	  cp $(srcdir)/COPYING copying.txt
+
 # Make copying.c from COPYING
-copying.c: COPYING copying.awk
-	awk -f $(srcdir)/copying.awk < $(srcdir)/COPYING > copying.c
+copying.c: copying.txt copying.awk
+	awk -f $(srcdir)/copying.awk < $(srcdir)/copying.txt > copying.c
 
 version.c: Makefile
 	rm -f version.c