Re: [open-axiom-devel] breakage on Windows (MinGW/MSYS)

[Bill P. <bil...@ne...>]

Gaby, Alfredo,

It's just a guess but ...

In keeping with the Windows philosophy: "Why do something the easy way
if you can find a
more complex method?" ;-) see:

http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/Unix_on_Windows.html

"The complaints about things with * in are due to different handling
of globbing on unix and Windows - a pattern which doesn't match
anything evaluates to an empty list on unix, but evaluates to the
pattern on Windows."

Perhaps that explains the problem you see? Maybe the following
alternate script will work more reliably:

  $ echo `date` > timestamp
  $ find -maxdepth 1 -regex '.*\.[ch]' -exec touch -r timestamp {} \;

Regards,
Bill Page.

On 8/23/07, Alfredo Portes <doy...@gm...> wrote:
> > | On 23 Aug 2007 09:18:37 -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis <gd...@cs...> wrote:
> > | When I remove this line the build continues normally in Windows.
> >
> > What was the error messages?
>
> touch: creating `*.c': No such file or directory
> touch: creating `*.h': No such file or directory
>
> and the build ends.
>