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Re: possible libtool bug blocking builds of Cygwin setup.exe


On 2013-04-12 16:34, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having trouble building Cygwin setup.exe (regular 32bit on
> 32bit). I am finding that the build is hanging at the linking stage of
> libgetopt++:
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/shaddy/cygwin-home/workarea/cygwin-setup-build/libgetopt++'
>   CXXLD    libgetopt++.la
> 
> Building with options I have deduced give me some debug:
> 
> $ make AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY=1 am__v_lt_1=--debug 2>&1 | tee -a build.log
> 
> I find (with confirmation from pstree), the build is hung in libtool:
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/shaddy/cygwin-home/workarea/cygwin-setup-build/libgetopt++'
> /bin/sh ./libtool --debug --tag=CXX    --mode=link g++  -Wall -Werror -Wno-uninitialized -g -O2 -version-info 1:1:0   -o libgetopt++.la -rpath /cygdrive/c/Users/shaddy/cygwin-home/workarea/cygwin-setup-build/inst/lib src/GetOption.lo src/Option.lo  src/BoolOption.lo src/OptionSet.lo src/StringArrayOption.lo  src/StringOption.lo
> libtool: enabling shell trace mode
> ...
> + func_convert_core_msys_to_w32 .libs/
> + set -x
> ++ /usr/bin/sed -e 's/[ ]*$//' -e 's|\\\\*|\\|g;s|/|\\|g;s|\\|\\\\|g'
> 
> 
> The code that it is stuck on is:
> 
>   func_convert_core_msys_to_w32_result=`( cmd //c echo "$1" ) 2>/dev/null |
>     $SED -e 's/[ ]*$//' -e "$lt_sed_naive_backslashify"`
> 
> And I found the double-slash on the cmd to be problematic. If I
> manually edit it out, the build continues (but only to a real build
> failure, which I'll leave out for the moment).
> 
> I've attached the cygcheck.out from that build host, a Windows 8
> computer. However, I also encountered exactly the same problem on a
> Windows 7 computer.
> 
> Have I stumbled on a real problem?

This all sounds suspiciously like libtool bug 14022, where the reporter
had confused --build and --host. How did you run configure?

Cheers,
Peter (who will be away for the weekend)


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