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Re: [PATCH] fix make after clean
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 01:07 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:22:42PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> >Without it, after a successfully completed build:
> >
> >$ make clean -C i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin
> >[...]
> >$ make
> >[...goes until winsup/cygwin...]
> >[...compiles all files until link stage...]
> >g++: devices.o: No such file or directory
> >make[3]: *** [cygwin0.dll] Error 1
> >
> >So in this case, apparently it is.
>
> And, without it, I continue to build without problem. I *am* building
> on Linux, though, so maybe that's the difference.
No, I duplicated this on Linux as well (after I tracked down a cocom
RPM), but that did make me think of other possibilities. The difference
seems to be if you pass an absolute or relative path to the top-level
configure script; only in the latter does it fail as I described. I
presume you've been using an absolute path?
Yaakov