Building a snapshot ("Not an ELF file" error)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Nov 6 13:48:00 GMT 2013


On Nov  7 00:31, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Nov 06 02:37, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> >It'd still be very interesting to know an opinion of the CYGWIN gurus
> >about this trouble that I asked yesterday (thanks to Marco, I now know
> >that the original ELF error is benign):
> >
> >>make[3]: Entering directory `/home/lavr/cygwin-snapshot-20130925-1/i686-pc-
> >>cygwin/winsup/doc'
> >>builddir=`pwd` \
> >>&& cd ../../.././winsup/doc \
> >>&& ../../.././winsup/doc/xidepend ../../.././winsup/doc/cygwin-ug-net.xml >
> >>"${builddir}/Makefile.dep"
> >>/bin/sh: line 2: ../../.././winsup/doc/xidepend: No such file or directory
> >>make[3]: *** No rule to make target `Makefile.dep', needed by `all'.  Stop.
> >>make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/lavr/cygwin-snapshot-20130925-1/i686-pc-
> >>cygwin/winsup/doc'
> 
> I noticed this recently too. I think it's just a bit of oversight with a
> recent check-in to CVS.
> 
> I've attached a patch that should fix this for the winsup module.

Nope.  We don't support building within the source dir.  If you build in
a separate build dir, which you should do anyway, xidepend is guaranteed
to be not in .


Corinna

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