buildconf fails for APU with MinGW

[Guenter Knauf <fu...@apache.org>]

Hi all,
before we get out next version I really would like to get soem configure 
whoes fixed with the 1.4.x/1.3.x branches ...

currently APU buildconf fails for me with MinGW in APR's genbuild.py:
$ ./buildconf

Looking for apr source in /projects/apr-1.4.x/apr
Creating include/private/apu_config.h ...
Creating configure ...
Generating 'make' outputs ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/projects/apr-1.4.x/apr/build/gen-build.py", 
line 230, in <module>
     main()
   File "C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/projects/apr-1.4.x/apr/build/gen-build.py", 
line 135, in main
     objects, _unused = write_objects(f, legal_deps, h_deps, files)
   File "C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/projects/apr-1.4.x/apr/build/gen-build.py", 
line 172, in write_objects
     assert file[-2:] == '.c'
AssertionError

also, I would like to know the exact steps required to make something 
equal to a release tarball from SVN - means what autoconf tool versions 
are required min/max, and is it only invoking buildconf, or is it more?

Gün.

Re: buildconf fails for APU with MinGW

[Guenter Knauf <fu...@apache.org>]

Am 15.02.2011 00:13, schrieb Guenter Knauf:
> Hi all,
> before we get out next version I really would like to get soem configure
> whoes fixed with the 1.4.x/1.3.x branches ...
>
> currently APU buildconf fails for me with MinGW in APR's genbuild.py:
> $ ./buildconf
>
> Looking for apr source in /projects/apr-1.4.x/apr
> Creating include/private/apu_config.h ...
> Creating configure ...
> Generating 'make' outputs ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/projects/apr-1.4.x/apr/build/gen-build.py", line
> 230, in <module>
> main()
> File "C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/projects/apr-1.4.x/apr/build/gen-build.py", line
> 135, in main
> objects, _unused = write_objects(f, legal_deps, h_deps, files)
> File "C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/projects/apr-1.4.x/apr/build/gen-build.py", line
> 172, in write_objects
> assert file[-2:] == '.c'
> AssertionError
I've added a 'print file' to ./build/gen-build.py line 171 in order to 
see why the AssertionError happens, and this shows:
...
strmatch/apr_strmatch.c
uri/apr_uri.c
xlate/xlate.c
xml/apr_xml.c
/

so seems to me that some paths are not set properly, and we end up with 
a slash only which makes the "assert file[-2:] == '.c'" bail out ...
I've added a hack which skips the slash, and then buildconf can continue 
(and BTW there follows another slash), but of course that doesnt fix the 
root cause why we get slashes instead of filenames ...
I will see if I find some more time to investigate deeper what exaxtly 
fails in 1st place, but if someone who's more familar with gen-build.py 
has some hints what I could try quickly then please let me know ...

Gün.