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bug #55708: broken Makefile dependency for doc/automake.pdf on Cygwin

Submitter:  Michael Haubenwallner <haubi>
Submitted:  Wed 13 Feb 2019 05:39:17 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  General Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  Build/Installation Status:  Invalid
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  gbranden
Open/Closed:  Closed Planned Release:  None
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Sat 25 Feb 2023 08:16:54 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Cygwin people are talking to us again!

Per Brian Inglis,

> No longer an issue - perhaps did not run bootstrap (hey good guess - that exists on sv!) after git pull, or autoreconf before building from download, etc.


https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-02/msg00156.html

Resolving as invalid.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Tue 25 Jan 2022 04:30:39 PM UTC, comment #1: 

This is not in progress; I have no Cygwin environment to test on, and we haven't heard anything from Cygwin users since about 90 days after the groff 1.22.4 release.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Wed 13 Feb 2019 05:39:17 PM UTC, original submission:  

On Cygwin, compiling groff-1.22.4 with multiple make jobs yields this make error:

make[1]: * No rule to make target 'groff', needed by 'doc/automake.pdf'.  Stop.
make[1]: * Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Problem is that Cygwin is able to map a file name 'groff' to 'groff.exe' only if 'groff.exe' does exist, so the top level Makefile targets are 'groff$(EXEEXT)' and 'troff$(EXEEXT)'.

Because EXEEXT is not empty on Cygwin, 'groff' as prerequisite to doc/automake.pdf does not match top level 'groff$(EXEEXT)' target.

Michael Haubenwallner <haubi>

 

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file #46248:  0001-doc.am-use-EXEEXT-for-prerequisites.patch added by haubi (978B - text/x-patch - proposed patch)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2023-02-25 gbranden Summary[PATCH] broken Makefile dependency for doc/automake.pdf on Cygwin broken Makefile dependency for doc/automake.pdf on Cygwin
    2023-02-25 gbranden StatusNone Invalid
        Assigned toNone gbranden
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2022-05-31 gbranden Assigned togbranden None
    2022-01-25 gbranden CategoryNone General
        StatusIn Progress None
    2020-10-22 gbranden StatusNone In Progress
        Assigned toNone gbranden
        Summarybroken Makefile dependency for doc/automake.pdf on Cygwin [PATCH] [PATCH] broken Makefile dependency for doc/automake.pdf on Cygwin
    2019-02-13 haubi Attached File- Added 0001-doc.am-use-EXEEXT-for-prerequisites.patch, #46248

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