Re: Current trunk fails to build on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 23:05:45 GMT
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>     eliz> Either texindex.awk should be in the repository as well,
> 
> Could be done.  It didn't seem necessary to me, given that gawk 4.0 was
> released several years ago, but I don't have strong feelings about it.
> What is in or out of the repository is a judgement call.

Well, if you want me at all to be able to build the trunk regularly
(see below), this looks like the only way, unless Aharon makes the
script work with older Gawk versions.  To build Texinfo and other
packages, I use MSYS, which is a Posix-like environment on top of
MinGW, so I'm constrained to whatever versions they provide.

> Well, Eli, it will bust *you*, because you insist on using Windows.  As
> far as I can see, it's not our job to fix your self-inflicted problem.

I thought by building from the repository I help you in a way that
you'd like me to continue.  If instead it turns out this is an
annoyance for you, I will crawl back under my rock, and fix the
problems privately as best I could.

> (I imagine the rename could be done by hand.)

No, it cannot: see the Makefile.  The file is created by a single rule
that does renaming and editing with Sed as part of the same recipe.