Re: problems building textutils 2.0.11 on cygwin

[Jim Meyering]

Thanks for the reports and for persisting :-)
I've adjusted the tests and renamed some files for the next test release.

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Index: Test.pm
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RCS file: /fetish/textutils/tests/pr/Test.pm,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -p -r1.12 Test.pm
--- Test.pm     2000/08/05 10:51:39     1.12
+++ Test.pm     2001/02/07 09:41:26
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ my @tv = (
 # -w/W PAGE_WIDTH [-J] options
 ['10wa', '-W 72 -J -l17 -f', [\'tFFt-ll'], [\'W72Jl17f-ll'], 0],
 ['10wb', '-w 72 -J -l17 -f', [\'tFFt-ll'], [\'W72Jl17f-ll'], 0],
-['10wc', '-W 72 -l17 -f', [\'tFFt-ll'], [\'W72l17f-ll'], 0],
+['10wc', '-W 72 -l17 -f', [\'tFFt-ll'], [\'W-72l17f-ll'], 0],
 ['10wd', '-w 72 -l17 -f', [\'tFFt-ll'], [\'w72l17f-ll'], 0],
 ['10we', '-W 28 -l17 -f', [\'tFFt-ll'], [\'W28l17f-ll'], 0],
 ['10wf', '-W 27 -l17 -f', [\'tFFt-ll'], [\'W27l17f-ll'], 0],
@@ -302,11 +302,11 @@ my @tv = (
 #
 # new long-options -W/-S/-J disentangle those options (see also No.`10*')
 # columns, truncated = 72   /  no separator :
-['14g', '-2 -S -f', [\'t_notab'], [\'2Sf-t_notab'], 0],
+['14g', '-2 -S -f', [\'t_notab'], [\'2-Sf-t_notab'], 0],
 # full lines, no truncation /  separator = TAB :  (Input: -S"<TAB>")
 ['14h', '-2 -S"        " -J -f', [\'t_notab'], [\'2sf-t_notab'], 0],
 # columns, truncated = 72   /  separator `:' :
-['14i', '-2 -S: -f', [\'t_notab'], [\'2S_f-t_notab'], 0],
+['14i', '-2 -S: -f', [\'t_notab'], [\'2-S_f-t_notab'], 0],
 # full lines, no truncation /  separator = `:' :
 ['14j', '-2 -S: -J -f', [\'t_notab'], [\'2s_f-t_notab'], 0],
 # columns, truncated = 60   /  separator = space:


"Matthew Smith" <address@hidden> wrote:
| 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:
|
| ---------------------------------------------------
| 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.
| --------------------------------------------------
...
I'll look into your other problems later:

| > getdate.y:866: parse error before `)'
...
| > Next problem:
| >
| > ./savedir.c: In function `savedir':
| > ./savedir.c:79: `DIR' 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.