Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] [win32-gui] some more gnu make issues

[Robert M. <rm...@po...>]

Reini Urban wrote:
> Robert May schrieb:
>> Reini Urban wrote:
>>> samples/standard_images.pl is either missing as file in CVS, or
>>> wrongly in MANIFEST.
>>> same for :
>>> win32-gui-demos.pl
>>> Win32-GUI-Constants/TODO
>>> Win32-GUI-Constants/Changes
>> Win32-gui-demos.pl removed (will add again later, when finished)
>>
>> Win32-GUI-Constants/TODO
>> Win32-GUI-Constants/Changes
>>
>> Added.
> 
> Thanks. Builds now almost under cygwin.
> 
> 1. samples/standard_images.pl is still in MANIFEST

Oops.  My bad.  I'll check in the missing file before the end of the 
weekend.

> 2. In Makefile for gnu make the "-" before cp didn't work for me to copy 
> the demos. So I changed that to
> 
> demos:
> 	$(MKPATH) $(INST_DEMO)
> 	$(CP) samples/*.pl $(INST_DEMO)
> 	$(CP) samples/*.cur $(INST_DEMO)
> 	$(CP) samples/*.bmp $(INST_DEMO)
> 	$(CP) samples/*.ico $(INST_DEMO)
> 
> Otherwise the errorlevel is set:
> cp samples/* blib/lib/Win32/GUI/demos
> cp: omitting directory `samples/CVS'
> make: [demos] Error 1 (ignored)

That look like it is expected to.  The "-" before the cp results in the 
"(ignored)" on the last line: cp is returning a non-zero exit status, 
but make (which would normally abort when this happens), is ignoring it 
and continuing.

The files should have all been copied correctly.  I'll address a better 
way of copying the demo files (similar to that done in the subdirs) in a 
future release, but not immediately.

The changes you propose should not be necessary.

> 3. gnu make, make test, make install doesn't recurse into the subdirs 
> Win32-GUI-AxWindow, Win32-GUI-DIBitmap, Win32-GUI-Grid

That's by design.  None of those 3 modules can be built (as far as I 
know) with gcc, as they rely on one or other of the MFC or ATL 
frameworks, which only come with MS compilers.

You should have a message during the 'perl Makefile.PL' stage that these 
modules will be skipped during the build.  If not, then check the very 
latest CVS, as there was a bug where I wasn't closing a file descriptor 
properly, resulting in those messages disappearing into a file I had 
been writing earlier.

Regards,
Rob.