Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/05/31/14:34:39
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 4:28 AM
> To: newlib AT sourceware DOT org
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Cygwin build error
>
>
> This is a newlib problem. I've redirected this mail to the
> appropriate
> list newlib AT sourceware DOT org.
>
> On Apr 27 15:14, Ernie Coskrey wrote:
> > I ran into the following problem building the latest cygwin
> snapshot:
> >
> > configure: loading cache .././config.cache
> > configure: error: `CFLAGS' has changed since the previous run:
> > configure: former value: -O2 -g -O2
> > configure: current value: -O2 -g -O2
> > configure: error: changes in the environment can compromise
> the build
> > configure: error: run `make distclean' and/or `rm
> .././config.cache' and start over
> > configure: error: /bin/sh
> '../../../../src/newlib/libc/configure' failed for libc
> >
> > By piping the output to a file, I saw that the former value
> of CFLAGS is "-O2 -g -O2 " (two spaces), while the current
> value is "-O2 -g -O2 " (one space). This causes the
> comparison in libc/configure to fail.
> >
> > The way I've resolved this is to replace the following line:
> >
> > if test "x$ac_old_val" != "x$ac_new_val"; then
> >
> > with
> >
> > if test "`echo $ac_old_val`" != "`echo $ac_new_val`"; then
> >
> > wherever it appears in any "configure" script (there are 75
> configure scripts that contain this test, BTW). There may be
> a more elegant way around this, but I haven't found it.
> Running "make distclean" or removing config.cache doesn't
> resolve the problem.
> >
> > -----
> > Ernie Coskrey SteelEye Technology, Inc. 803-461-3875
>
>
> Corinna
>
This problem isn't limited to newlib: the same fix must be applied to a number of non-newlib configure scripts.
However, I have found a simpler solution than patching all 70-plus configure scripts. The root of the problem
is that the variable "CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET" gets defined in the top-level Makefile as follows:
CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET = -O2 $(CFLAGS) $(SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET)
Since SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET is usually empty, you end up with an extra space at the end of CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET (in my case, anyway).
The following patch will resolve the problem without requiring any changes in the underlying configure scripts. This patch is for "src/Makefile.in" - the top-level Makefile.in. It uses the "strip" command to remove the extra whitespace from CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET and CXXFLAGS_FOR_TARGET.
--- Makefile.in.ORIG 2006-05-31 08:49:14.166500000 -0400
+++ Makefile.in 2006-05-31 11:08:25.150875000 -0400
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@
# CFLAGS will be just -g. We want to ensure that TARGET libraries
# (which we know are built with gcc) are built with optimizations so
# prepend -O2 when setting CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET.
-CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET = -O2 $(CFLAGS) $(SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET)
+CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET = $(strip -O2 $(CFLAGS) $(SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET))
SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET = @SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET@
# If GCC_FOR_TARGET is not overriden on the command line, then this
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@
fi; \
fi`
-CXXFLAGS_FOR_TARGET = $(CXXFLAGS) $(SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET)
+CXXFLAGS_FOR_TARGET = $(strip $(CXXFLAGS) $(SYSROOT_CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET))
LIBCXXFLAGS_FOR_TARGET = $(CXXFLAGS_FOR_TARGET) -fno-implicit-templates
GCJ_FOR_TARGET=$(STAGE_CC_WRAPPER) @GCJ_FOR_TARGET@ $(FLAGS_FOR_TARGET)
-----
Ernie Coskrey
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