Re: Make compile wrapper eat win32 paths

[Peter Rosin]

Hi Ralf,

Den 2009-03-01 19:10 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
> Hi Peter,
>
> * Peter Rosin wrote on Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 08:30:20PM CET:
> > Since *I* am not even successful at building automake on this $host, I
> > don't think I would want to dig into the testsuite. Sorry. So, I still
> > can't run the testsuite, see the "Make depmode=cpp work with Microsoft
> > Visual C++ on MSYS" thread. In short, I get:
> >
> > Constant name 'HASH(0xa2a1ea8)' has invalid characters at ./automake.tmp line 
> > 293
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./automake.tmp line 293.
> >
> > I have no clue as to how to debug that.
>
> Please try this patch, report results and the perl version you have,
> and which email address you want in THANKS.  :-)

Excellent, I can now bootstrap, and I want the email address im using here
in THANKS.

$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=msys, osvers=1.0.8(0.4632), archname=msys
    uname='msys_nt-4.0 du216771 1.0.8(0.4632) 2002-05-13 09:50 i686 unknown '
    config_args=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef 
usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fno-strict-aliasing 
-fnative-struct',
    optimize='-O3 -s -mcpu=pentium',
    cppflags='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fno-strict-aliasing -fnative-struct'
    ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.3-1', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', 
lseeksize=4
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='ld2', ldflags =' -s'
    libpth=/usr/lib /lib
    libs=-lgdbm
    perllibs=
    libc=/usr/lib/libmsys-1.0.dll.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, 
libperl=libperl.dll
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -s'
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -s'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
  Built under msys
  Compiled at Dec  5 2002 09:37:25
  @INC:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/msys
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/msys
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .


Regarding the change itself, I haven't found any tests that feeds win32 paths
to compile. Are there any?

Cheers,
Peter