Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3B79DED8.3040807@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 22:30:48 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010713 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Collins CC: tromey@redhat.com, cygwin@Cygwin.Com, Bernard Dautrevaux , "'Tim Van Holder'" , automake@gnu.org Subject: Re: Automake 1.4l released References: <3B7974C6.83934084@yahoo.com> <3B797B22.C06C71D9@yahoo.com> <87bslip7hj.fsf@creche.redhat.com> <20010814195923.A28367@redhat.com> <87wv46uoac.fsf@creche.redhat.com> <997839007.16944.3.camel@robertlinux> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robert Collins wrote: > On 14 Aug 2001 19:04:11 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: >> >>True. As far as I know nobody ever tried `make distcheck' on Cygwin >>before. In fact this is the first time I've heard of anybody using >>Cygwin as their primary maintainer platform for an automake-using >>project. >> > > I did 90% of my squid automake conversion (waiting for automake 1.5 > before it can be considered for squid-HEAD merging) on cygwin. make > distcheck worked fine with no errors (once other issues with distcheck > were solved - but they weren't cygwin-specific). > > I haven't piped up to now, cause I had nothing to offer on this bug... > however for the record: > > This cp -p error on (cygwin/ntfs/ntsec on), while interesting, is either > a) new due to changes in cygwin since I did the squid automake stuff (ie > in last 3-4 months) > b) interesting, but not the core reason for distcheck failing. Nope. It actually seems to be due to a change in automake. Apparently, make distcheck did not previously 'chmod -R a-w'. At least, that's how I interpret Alexandre Duret-Lutz's email on the automake list: > chmod -R a-w is done by the distcheck target (not distdir) to > make sure a distribution can work even from a read-only > filesystem (such as a CDROM). This test was not done in 1.4. "This test" being the "remove all write perms and pretend we're on a CDROM". (Sure, 'make distcheck' existed in 1.4, but not with the a-w thing). So, when you were using automake with squid, you still had write perms on the files and thus 'cp -p' worked without problems. Hypothesis: if you built and installed automake-1.4l, and then tried to re-autotool your squid source tree, it would fail make distcheck even if you use the same cygwin1.dll that you were using 3-4 months ago. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/