Hi, I asked a Cygwin-running friend, no, really, some of my best friends run Cygwin, to give 1.7's tar file a spin given he's not an nmh user, but knows the `./configure && make all check' dance.
After installing, gcc-core, libncurses-devel, libgdbm-devel, and make, he got to the end of a successful `make check' with just some skips. He then added libsasl2-devel, openssl-devel, and libcurl-devel, based on my prompting to specify the --with-... options and dealing with the errors when they couldn't be satisfied. Through this, he did a `make clean' at some point, and then found, unlike the first time, that make assumed flex was to hand when it wasn't, and it wasn't needed the first time around. As the warning for sbr/dtimep.c told him, `You should only need it if you modified a '.l' file', and he didn't. He installed flex anyway, and then the m4 that was needed, and got to the end of another `make check' with only `valgrind' skipped. I don't think `make clean' should be removing files shipped in the tar file. The whole idea is those files only need `maintainer' tools to build them and thus a `maintainer-clean' removes them, but not `lighter' cleans. https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Clean.html#Clean is a bit vague, but seems to agree. The Makefile has maintainer-clean-generic: @echo "This command is intended for maintainers to use" @echo "it deletes files that may require special tools to rebuild." -rm -f sbr/dtimep.c -rm -f sbr/icalendar.c -rm -f sbr/icalparse.c -rm -f sbr/icalparse.h So it's removing dtimep.c, which seems to suggest I'm right, but then it also has CLEANFILES = \ ... sbr/dtimep.c \ due to David's 1353a9572 from early 2014, "Added sbr/dtimep.c to CLEANFILES so that make distcheck passes on FreeBSD 9", and "automake 1.12.6 on FreeBSD 9 needs the sbr/dtimep.c". Is my understanding of `make clean' correct? It's been a long time since used metaconf and autoconf. And does anyone recall what this problem was? I'm guessing automake 1.12.6 got grumpy when it looked for leftovers in a distcheck after a clean? -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy -- Nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
