Hello everyone,
I ran into some sizable obstacles trying to build current SVN sources of
texinfo on Cygwin
*) A VPATH build breaks in tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/lib, because the
sed-as-a-preprocessor mechanism _silently_ fails to include c++defs.h &
friends into the built headers, as they don't exist in $(builddir). I
prepended $(srcdir)/ to the definition of CXXDEFS_H & friends to fix this.
*) After that, MiscXS still failed to build because the source is
intolerant of a case-sensitively challenged file system: there are two
source files named MiscXS.c and miscxs.c, which resolve to the
effectively _same_ object file. I really think one of the two should be
renamed.
*) Later into the build, there's another VPATH build failure: help2man
cannot extract help from texindex, because texindex itself is in
$(top_builddir)/texindex, but its support files (texindex.awk, ...) are
still only in $(top_srcdir)/texindex
See ya
Hans-Bernhard Broeker
