Re: Support for Interix 5.2 and 6.0?

[Martin Koeppe]

Hello Ralf,

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Martin Koeppe wrote on Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:32:41PM CEST:
> > For libtool-2.1a I replaced the outdated config.* and also put a copy
> > in the root source dir, ran ./configure && make (i.e. GNU make!), then
> > make -k check. The output is attached, 2 errors besides hardcode!
>
> Cool.  Gary's fixes for non-GNU make took care of the build issues,
> the test failures (beside hardcode) are due to one issue only.

I ran the test with GNU make, not Interix make!

> I guess the XPASS we observed back then must be on Interix 3 only then.
> Does the patch below fix both failures?  You can test faster by
>  make check-local TESTSUITEFLAGS='47 49'
>
> after applying the patch.

I now downloaded libtool-2.1a as of 20070328 13:48 +0200,
applied the patch below and did a complete re-test, i.e. I 
renamed both the "make"s to "make.gnu" and "make.itx" respectively,
made sure that there is no plain "make" in PATH, and built both on 3.5 
and 5.2 with both make's. (./configure MAKE=make.{gnu,itx})

Unfortunately, the build on 3.5 has stopped for reasons not related to 
libtool. Will retest that later.

On 5.2 with GNU make the check-local test now finishes as expected: 47 
expected, 2 skipped.

On 5.2 with Interix make, however, there is no build! I ran:
$ ./configure MAKE=make.itx
[ normal configure output ]
$ make.itx
[ configure is rerun here and the last lines are: ]
checking for gcj... no
checking for windres... no
configure: creating ./config.status
cd . && /bin/sh /tmp/libtool-2.1a-itx/libltdl/config/missing --run 
autoheader
rm -f stamp-h1
touch ./config-h.in
cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status config.h
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
make  all-recursive
make: not found
*** Error code 1

Stop.


So Interix make decides to rerun ./configure while GNU make doesn't, 
and at some point there must be hardcoded "make"! configure isn't 
rerun by GNU make, so the bug might be hidden for it.


> > > -> Native make on interix is not usable, only to build GNU make ;o)
>
> Apparently it is now, for Libtool.  :-)

No, not yet!


Martin


> > Markus is right, it was the native interix make, which is some 4.4BSD
> > make. I have the man page attached. That man page says something about
> > a difference to gmake with recursive make calls.
>
> Thanks.  The issues noted in the manpage shouldn't matter now, I guess.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
> 2007-03-27  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
>
>         * tests/deplibs-ident.at: XPASS only on Interix 3.
>         Report by Martin Koeppe <address@hidden>.
>
> Index: tests/deplibs-ident.at
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/tests/deplibs-ident.at,v
> retrieving revision 1.7
> diff -u -r1.7 deplibs-ident.at
> --- tests/deplibs-ident.at      25 Mar 2007 12:12:43 -0000      1.7
> +++ tests/deplibs-ident.at      27 Mar 2007 21:07:12 -0000
> @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
>            [0],[stdout],[ignore])
>   AT_CHECK([$EGREP 'cee.*cee' stdout], 1, [ignore], [ignore])
>   AT_XFAIL_IF([case $host in
> -                 *-*-aix*|hppa*-*-hpux*|*-*-interix*|*-*-openbsd*) false;;
> +                 *-*-aix*|hppa*-*-hpux*|*-*-interix3|*-*-openbsd*) false;;
>                  *):;;
>                esac])
>   dnl This is currently broken in libtool