Re: [bug-gawk] Problem with building gawk v3.1.86 with MinGW on win32

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:07:17 +0200
> From: Volker Kiefel <address@hidden>
> 
> Now I tried to build the upcoming new v3.1.86 for win32 systems
> with MinGW (gcc versions 3.4.5 and 4.5.2). As recommended I used
> the files in the `pc' subdirectory including the makefile for
> win32-systems.
> 
> Compilation ended with the error message:
> ----
> C:\versuch\gawk-3.1.86>mingw32-make mingw32
> ...
> gcc -c -O2 -gdwarf-2 -g3 -DGAWK -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  getopt.c
> gcc -c -O2 -gdwarf-2 -g3 -DGAWK -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  getopt1.c
> mingw32-make[1]: *** No rule to make target `hard-locale.h', needed by 
> `dfa.o'.
>   Stop.
> mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/versuch/gawk-3.1.86'
> mingw32-make: *** [mingw32] Error 2

It's a known problem.  Apply the following patch to pc/Makefile, copy
it to the parent directory, and rebuild:

--- pc/Makefile.~0      2011-04-29 15:35:17.000000000 +0300
+++ pc/Makefile 2011-06-17 12:29:58.265625000 +0300
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
 
 # LIBOBJS
 #       GNU and other stuff that gawk uses as library routines.
-LIBOBJS= getopt$O getopt1$O dfa$O regex$O random$O hard-locale$O
+LIBOBJS= getopt$O getopt1$O dfa$O regex$O random$O
 
 GAWKOBJS = $(ALLOBJS) $(LIBOBJS)
 PGAWKOBJS = $(PAWKOBJS1) $(PAWKOBJS2) $(LIBOBJS) awkgram$O getid$O $(OBJ)
@@ -245,14 +245,12 @@
 
 command$O debug$O:     cmd.h
 
-dfa$O: hard-locale.h xalloc.h
+dfa$O: xalloc.h
 
 gawkmisc$O:    pc/gawkmisc.pc
 
 getopt$O getopt1$O :   getopt_int.h
 
-hard-locale$O: hard-locale.h
-
 io$O:          popen.h
 
 regex$O:       regcomp.c regexec.c regex_internal.h