> From: Costas Argyris <costas.argy...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:52:54 +0000 > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org, Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> > > > If so, could you please post it again, rebased on the current Git > > master? > > There is an issue here: I noticed that when I was trying to build > (cross-compile) Make for Windows using a gcc + mingw-w64 > cross-compiler (using Autotools, not build_w32.bat), there was a > big difference depending on whether I was using the Make source > code from git or the tarball. > > When trying from git, which was my first attempt, I was getting > compilation warnings which were turning themselves into errors, > so I never managed to build. > > When I used the sources extracted from the tarball though, this > simply wasn't the case so I was able to cross-compile just fine. > > Then the problem was how to track my changes, since I don't > have git any more. What I did just to get a patch posted was > to simply 'git init' a repository in the extracted sources just so > I could use 'git diff' and so forth. That way, I created the patch > I originally posted. > > The problem now is that in order to rebase on the current Git > master, I'd have to use Git, so I'll fall back to the original problem > of not being able to build because of the warnings being treated > as errors.
If this gives you so much trouble, just post the diffs against the last release's tarball, and I will take it from there. > Is this a known issue? I'm not aware of it, but then I don't cross-build Make, and rarely build it from Git anyway. > Or is it just that not many people are > cross-compiling for Windows using gcc and autotools (i.e. not > using build_w32.bat)? Not sure. I think the MSYS2 folks do use the configury, but they use it on Windows, not on GNU/Linux (i.e., they build natively, not by cross-compiling). > That being said, I haven't tried to build the Git source code > using build_w32.bat, so for all I know maybe that doesn't > lead to the warnings/errors I got with autotools (mostly because > that would be a native compile, as opposed to the cross-compile > I am doing with autotools). You can submit diffs against the last released version here as well. > > And would you please consider working on changing build_w32.bat as > > well? > > Absolutely, I haven't forgotten about this. I haven't looked into > that file at all though, so I don't know how it configures its Makefiles, > how it detects the toolchain etc, so I may need some help to speed > things up. But definitely planning to do so in the coming days, or > weekend at worst. Thanks. Please don't hesitate to ask questions.
