Re: [RFA]: Top-level configure patch to build Cygwin native newlib

jjohnstn
2004-06-16T16:23:59Z

Hi Corinna,

I have no problem with the patch, but would it be possible to add
to the patch to issue a warning message to the user to tell them that
winsup is missing?

-- Jeff J.

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> perhaps I could just apply the patch but I would like to ask people first
> if there something is in the way of applying the below patch.
>
> The idea is the following: If you have a source tree containing the newlib
> subdir but the source tree does not contain the winsup subdir, then it's
> impossible to build a native Cygwin newlib. The reason is, that building a
> Cygwin native newlib requires a bunch of header files from the winsup/cygwin
> directory. If the winsup directory is missing, the build will break when
> trying to build newlib.
>
> For that reason, the below patch to configure.in checks if the winsup
> directory is available and removes newlib from the target_configdirs
> if winsup is missing.
>
> Is that ok to apply?
>
>
> Corinna
>
>
> * configure.in: Don't build Cygwin native newlib if winsup
> directory is missing.
> * configure: Regenerate.
>
>
> Index: configure.in
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/cvsfiles/gnupro/configure.in,v
> retrieving revision 1.32
> diff -p -u -r1.32 configure.in
> --- configure.in 9 Jun 2004 17:31:01 -0000 1.32
> +++ configure.in 16 Jun 2004 15:19:40 -0000
> @@ -548,8 +548,8 @@ case "${target}" in
> *-*-cygwin*)
> target_configdirs="$target_configdirs target-libtermcap target-winsup"
> noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs target-gperf target-libgloss ${libgcj}"
> - # always build newlib.
> - skipdirs=`echo " ${skipdirs} " | sed -e 's/ target-newlib / /'`
> + # always build newlib if winsup directory is present.
> + test -d winsup && skipdirs=`echo " ${skipdirs} " | sed -e 's/ target-newlib / /'`
>
> # Can't build gdb for Cygwin if not native.
> case "${host}" in
>
>
>