For the specific case of cross-building Windows on GNU/Linux, it could
also work to install Wine. Many of the tests work OK that way, for
example.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 5:02 AM John Darrington
<j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
>
> We're now using the pspp binary to generate its own documentation. So
> the documentation cannot work when cross building. I can think of 3
> things we could do:
>
> 1. Like Fritz suggests, ship the generated files in the tarball.
> 2. Don't generate any documentation when cross building.
> 3. For cross builds, also build a native binary and generate the
> documentation using that.
>
> All of these solutions have their own (de)merits.
>
> J'
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 07:20:22AM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i completely forgot that the windows build is a cross build, i.e.
> pspp.exe can of course not be executed on the build machine. The current
> build process fails with
>
> ====
> (cd ./examples \
> &&
> /home/pspp/pspp-master-20201117/pspp-1.5.2-gc04cd4/src/ui/terminal/pspp.exe
> ../doc/examples/autorecode.sps -o - -O format=spv) >
> doc/examples/autorecode.spv.tmp
> /bin/sh: line 1:
> /home/pspp/pspp-master-20201117/pspp-1.5.2-gc04cd4/src/ui/terminal/pspp.exe:
> cannot execute binary file: Fehler im Format der Programmdatei
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:14217: doc/examples/autorecode.spv] Error 126
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> '/home/pspp/pspp-master-20201117/pspp-1.5.2-gc04cd4'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:12303: all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> '/home/pspp/pspp-master-20201117/pspp-1.5.2-gc04cd4'
> make: *** [Makefile:6401: all] Error 2
> Uncaught exception from user code:
> system 'Mingw32-make' failed: 512 at ./buildpspp4windows.pl line
> 568, <FILE> line 937.
> main::ProcMake() called at ./buildpspp4windows.pl line 369
> main::ProcGeneratePSPP("w32", "Debug") called at
> ./buildpspp4windows.pl line 124
> program finished with exit code 2
> elapsedTime=419.754343
>
> ===
>
> While executing a simple „make“
>
>
> https://github.com/fredowski/pspp-buildbot/blob/master/win/buildpspp4windows.pl#L568
>
> Any ideas how this can be avoided? Aren’t this examples for the
> documentation, i.e. could that be part of the doc target?
>
> http://caeis.etech.fh-augsburg.de:8010/#/builders/7/builds/95
>
> Fritz
>
>
>
>
