Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: coreutils-8.22.151-37b36

[Pádraig Brady]

On 07/30/2014 09:48 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/14/2014 10:04 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 07/14/2014 07:33 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>
>>>> On 32-bit cygwin, a default ./configure didn't even get to 'make check'
>>>> due to this error:
>>>>
>>>>   CCLD     src/make-prime-list.exe
>>>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'src/libstdbuf.so', needed by
>>>> 'all-am'.  Stop.
>>>
>>> Hmm, I'm guessing the make level failure is related to EXEEXT.
>>> Notice how bin_PROGRAMS is adjusted in configure.ac
>>> Probably pkglibexec_PROGS would need to be adjusted similarly.
>>> Though that would not be the only thing needed to support the
>>> stdbuf LDPRELOAD scheme on cygwin.
>>> So perhaps this would avoid the immediate issue?
>>>
>>> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
>>> index b50f6e1..68bc011 100644
>>> --- a/configure.ac
>>> +++ b/configure.ac
>>> @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ AC_COMPILE_IFELSE(
>>>    [stdbuf_supported=yes],
>>>    [stdbuf_supported=no])
>>>  AC_MSG_RESULT([$stdbuf_supported])
>>> -if test "$stdbuf_supported" = "yes"; then
>>> +if test "$stdbuf_supported" = "yes" && test -z "$EXEEXT"; then
>>>    gl_ADD_PROG([optional_bin_progs], [stdbuf])
>>>  fi
>>
>> Possible; I'll give it a shot.  At this point, it requires a full
>> autoreconf, so I spent some time getting coreutils.git up and running
>> rather than just building from the snapshot.
> 
> Sorry for not responding earlier (and thus, 8.23 has the same issue).
> But yes, I've tested this patch, and it does fix the immediate issue of
> failed builds on cygwin.  Are you planning on turning it into a formal
> patch for upstream?  I'd still like to get stdbuf ported there (it
> _should_ be doable, since cygwin supports LD_PRELOAD), but that's a much
> longer-term task.

Pushed.

thanks for confirming,
Pádraig.