bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/18/2012 02:57 AM, Z. Majeed wrote:
> --- On Mon, 12/17/12, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > From: Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken
> > On 12/17/2012 11:50 AM, Z. Majeed
> > wrote:
> > > Building latest git source in a non-src directory on
> > cygwin win7 with gcc 4.5.3 is broken - a patch follows -
> > > doc/local.mk: doc subdir is not created in build dir -
> > I made it a prereq of doc/constants.texi
> >
> > That seems a little hacky, for what seems like an automake
> > bug.
> > Maybe this one is the culprit?
> > http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=commit;h=v1.11-328-ge87c030
> > I use automake-1.11.6 and the coreutils configured min
> > version is 1.11.2.
> > Specifically I'm not impacted as I have this in Makefile:
> >
> > $(srcdir)/doc/version.texi:  $(srcdir)/doc/stamp-vti
> > $(srcdir)/doc/stamp-vti: doc/coreutils.texi
> > $(top_srcdir)/configure
> >          test -f doc/$(am__dirstamp) ||
> > $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) doc/$(am__dirstamp)
> >          ...
> >
> > BTW, Steffano, how can I see what release the above commit
> > is included in? Only minor versions seem to be tagged?
> >
> > I dislike dependency creep so am open to a workaround
> > as long as we know what's going on.

> You're probably right about the mkdir doc hack - I think I added it based on 
a similar rule for another subdir

Zartaj also mentioned to me he's using automake 1.12.5 and autoconf 2.69

thanks,
Pádraig.