Building a snapshot ("Not an ELF file" error)

[Shaddy Baddah]

Hi,

On Nov 07 00:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Nov 06 02:37, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
>>> It'd still be very interesting to know an opinion of the CYGWIN gurus
>>> about this trouble that I asked yesterday (thanks to Marco, I now know
>>> that the original ELF error is benign):
>>>
>>>> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/lavr/cygwin-snapshot-20130925-1/i686-pc-
>>>> cygwin/winsup/doc'
>>>> builddir=`pwd` \
>>>> && cd ../../.././winsup/doc \
>>>> && ../../.././winsup/doc/xidepend ../../.././winsup/doc/cygwin-ug-net.xml >
>>>> "${builddir}/Makefile.dep"
>>>> /bin/sh: line 2: ../../.././winsup/doc/xidepend: No such file or directory
>>>> make[3]: *** No rule to make target `Makefile.dep', needed by `all'.  Stop.
>>>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/lavr/cygwin-snapshot-20130925-1/i686-pc-
>>>> cygwin/winsup/doc'
>>
>> I noticed this recently too. I think it's just a bit of oversight with a
>> recent check-in to CVS.
>>
>> I've attached a patch that should fix this for the winsup module.
>
> Nope.  We don't support building within the source dir.  If you build in
> a separate build dir, which you should do anyway, xidepend is guaranteed
> to be not in .

Sorry, the patch is meant to be for the "build in a separate build dir"
method too.

As the OP has suggested in a recent post in their "Building a snapshot"
thread, the problem is that there is a mix in methods to locating
xidepend, whereby it is referenced via a relative dir path which would
be direct.

Only that there is a change of directory beforehand to which the
relative dir path is no longer applicable, and this causes error. For me
this was happening with a separate build dir, but I suspect that it
would happen regardless, as the winsup/doc subpath lives under the
<target_architecture> subdir that is created exclusively for the build
anyway.

In-lining that patch will make that clearer:


--- a/winsup/doc/Makefile.in
+++ b/winsup/doc/Makefile.in
@@ -91,6 +91,6 @@ cygwin-docs.tar.bz2 : $(TBFILES) $(TBDEPS)
  Makefile.dep: cygwin-ug-net.xml
         builddir=`pwd` \
         && cd $(srcdir) \
-       && $(srcdir)/xidepend $^ > "$${builddir}/$@"
+       && ./xidepend $^ > "$${builddir}/$@"

  -include Makefile.dep

Beyond that, I also experienced the (minor) fop issue, and did not
persevere. As I did not need the documentation to be built.

-- 
Regards,
Shaddy


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