Re: problems building textutils 2.0.11 on cygwin

[Matthew Smith]

To whom it may concern:

    I'm the textutils manager for cygwin.  I'm including my original email
that I sent on Jan. 16th below.  I've downloaded various versions of
textutils, and have found that all versions of textutils up to and including
2.0.8 built out of the box with no problems, although "make check" would
fail in the pr tests (more to follow).  Starting with version 2.0.9, I run
into the problems that I chronicled in my previous email.  In terms of the
"make check" failing in the pr section, this is due to the following problem
that was submitted several months ago:

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textutils comes with these files:

     tests/pr/2S_f-t_notab
     tests/pr/2s_f-t_notab
               ^
               |
     -----------

     tests/pr/2Sf-t_notab
     tests/pr/2sf-t_notab
               ^
               |
     -----------

     tests/pr/W72l17f-ll
     tests/pr/w72l17f-ll
              ^
              |
     ----------

i.e., three pairs of files are exactly the same except that one letter
has different case.

This causes "make check" to fail on case-insensitive file systems such
as NTFS or FAT32 on Windows where two files with same name but
different case cannot co-exist.
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If these messages are getting posted to a mailing list somewhere, could
someone please send me a heads up so I can get involved
(address@hidden).  Otherwise, if someone could send some sort of
acknowledgement, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
-Matt Smith
cygwin textutils maintainer
address@hidden



> To whom it may concern:
>
>     I'm the textutils maintainer for cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com).  I
just
> grabbed the most recent version (2.0.11) to build under cygwin.  I ran
into
> some problems, whereas 2.0 compiled for me out of the box with no
problems.
> I am using the latest build of cygwin, version 1.1.7.  The gcc version is
> 2.95.2.
>
> The first problem:
>
> getdate.y:866: parse error before `)'
> getdate.y: In function `yyerror':
> getdate.y:866: parse error before `)'
> make[2]: *** [getdate_.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/matts/textutils-2.0.11/lib'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/matts/textutils-2.0.11'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
>
> cygwin doesn't like the ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED stuff.  I changed this line to:
> yyerror (char *s), and compiling continued.
>
> Next problem:
>
> ./savedir.c: In function `savedir':
> ./savedir.c:79: `DIR' undeclared (first use in this function)
> ./savedir.c:79: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> ./savedir.c:79: for each function it appears in.)
> ./savedir.c:79: `dirp' undeclared (first use in this function)
> ./savedir.c:80: parse error before `struct'
> ./savedir.c:94: `allocated' undeclared (first use in this function)
> ./savedir.c:97: `name_space' undeclared (first use in this function)
> ./savedir.c:100: `dp' undeclared (first use in this function)
> ./savedir.c:108: `used' undeclared (first use in this function)
> ./savedir.c:127: `save_errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
> make[2]: *** [savedir_.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/matts/textutils-2.0.11/lib'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/matts/textutils-2.0.11'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
>
> dirent.h does exist, and defines the DIR structure.  The location of
> dirent.h is /usr/include/sys.  If I force HAVE_DIRENT_H to be defined,
> compiling will continue.
>
> Final problem (so far):
>
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `fileblocks.exe', needed by
> `libfetish.a'.
> Stop.
>
> Attached is the Makefile and config.log.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> -Matt Smith
> address@hidden
>