Re: [Win32] Can't build a dynamic libidn-1.12 library with MinGW in MSYS shell.

[Sisyphus]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Josefsson" <address@hidden>

> > ######################################
> > Making all in src
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/c/_32/comp/libidn-1.12/src'
> > gengetopt --unamed-opts --no-handle-version --no-handle-help \
> >        --set-package="idn" \
> >        --input idn.ggo Makefile.am --file-name idn_cmd || \
> >        test -f idn_cmd.h -a -f idn_cmd.c || \
> >        cp ./idn_cmd.h ./idn_cmd.h .
> > /bin/sh: gengetopt: command not found
>
> Hi.  Strange, it seems 'make' decides that it needs to re-build
> idn_cmd.c and idn_cmd.h from idn.ggo.  Did you modify either src/idn.ggo
> or src/Makefile.am?

No, I haven't modified any of the source files.

> Can you show the output from 'ls -l src/' inside
> the libidn directory?

address@hidden /c/_32/comp/libidn-1.12
$ ls -l src/
total 32
-rw-r--r--    1 Rob      Administ     1693 Jan 23 00:14 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r--    1 Rob      Administ    28806 Jan 24 00:31 Makefile.in
-rw-r--r--    1 Rob      Administ    15653 Jan 23 00:36 idn.c
-rw-r--r--    1 Rob      Administ     1860 Jan 23 00:40 idn.ggo
-rw-r--r--    1 Rob      Administ     6490 Jan 18 01:42 idna.el
-rw-r--r--    1 Rob      Administ     6292 Jan 18 01:42 punycode.el

> Anyway, as a work around, you could do 'touch src/idn_cmd.?' to make
> sure the timestamp for the generated files are later than the source.

Aaah ... now I think I see what the problem is. Both src/idn_cmd.h and 
src/idn_cmd.c ship with the source.
I first built a static lib, then ran 'make distclean', then tried to build 
the dynamic lib. Unfortunately, 'make distclean' removed both src/idn_cmd.h 
and src/idn_cmd.c. Re-instating those 2 files fixes the problem.

I gather 'make distclean' is doing something it shouldn't ? ... or is 'make 
distclean' simply the wrong command to be running between builds in this 
case ?

Cheers,
Rob