Another go at this XY-Problem...
From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 8:17 PM
From: "Johannes Sixt" <j6t@xxxxxxxx>
Am 27.12.2014 um 19:49 schrieb Philip Oakley:
Hi,
In ee9be06 (perl: detect new files in MakeMaker builds, 2012-07-27)
there is a step to detect if there has been an update to the PM.*
files,
however it appears that the logic is inverted in the comparison.
I need some extra eye's on this to be sure I have it right (I'm
trying
to debug an old Windows breakage...).
The resultant output of a make dry run included (on my m/c)..:
find perl -type f -name '*.pm' | sort >perl/PM.stamp+ && \
{ cmp perl/PM.stamp+ perl/PM.stamp >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || mv
perl/PM.stamp+ perl/PM.stamp; } && \
rm -f perl/PM.stamp+
make -C perl PERL_PATH='/usr/bin/perl' prefix='/c/Documents and
Settings/Philip' perl.mak
Shouldn't it be `{ ! cmp ` so that when the files are not identical,
the
move is performed?
https://github.com/git/git/blob/ee9be06770223238c6a22430eb874754dd22dfb0/Makefile#L2097
The existing code looks correct to me. cmp succeeds when the files
are
identical and fails when they are different: When it succeeds (files
are
equal), the mv is not executed. When it fails, either because a file
does not exist or they are different, the mv is executed.
Thanks. The inverse logic had me confused.
It's like 7400's again, for those that remember;-)
Here's where the real problem starts...
I was getting errors from
`cd $git_dir && make -n MSVC=1 V=1 2>MakeDryErrs.txt 1>MakeDry.txt`
(borrowed from 'msvc-build') which reported the PM.stamp as a problem,
with the quoted code being the last part of the MakeDry.txt (and no
PM.stamp seen).
Now that I've been poking and investigating the error's stopped! It's
all getting rather frustrating. Time to go again on a clean and
rebuild..
I'm trying to get the msysgit msvc-build script[1], which essentially
implements the Git 'compat/vcbuild/README', to work again in terms of
creating a Visual Studio [2008] project file (.sln).
If I run the code (find perl -type f -name '*.pm' ...) manually then the
PM.stamp file is created allowing future dry-runs to succeed - hence
some of my confusion.
The script uses git's 'contrib/buildsystems/engine.pl' to parse the
output of:
`make -n MSVC=1 V=1 2>\dev\null` [2]
This appears to no longer work because the -n (dry-run) option fails to
run the required 'perl/PM.stamp' during the dry-run. At least that's now
my understanding.
The
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Instead-of-Execution.html
page indicates that adding a + to the right rule would be needed to also
run the PM.stamp process during dry-run.
At the moment I'm getting (on my old WinXP machine, using Msysgit 1.9.5
as a basis)
$ make -n MSVC=1 V=1 1>makedry.txt
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `PM.stamp', needed by `perl.mak'.
Stop.
make: *** [perl/perl.mak] Error 2
i.e. PM.stamp was not created so can't be the target of the dry-run make
rule.
The makedry.txt file generated ends with the
find perl -type f -name '*.pm' | sort >perl/PM.stamp+ && \
{ cmp perl/PM.stamp+ perl/PM.stamp >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || mv
perl/PM.stamp+ perl/PM.stamp; } && \
rm -f perl/PM.stamp+
make -C perl PERL_PATH='/usr/bin/perl' prefix='/c/Documents and
Settings/Philip' perl.mak
make[1]: Entering directory `/c/msysgit195/git/perl'
make -C .. GIT-CFLAGS
make[2]: Entering directory `/c/msysgit195/git'
FLAGS='compat/vcbuild/scripts/clink.pl: -Imsvcgit/32bits/include [...]
if test x"$FLAGS" != x"`cat GIT-CFLAGS 2>/dev/null`" ; then \
echo >&2 " * new build flags"; \
echo "$FLAGS" >GIT-CFLAGS; \
fi
make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/msysgit195/git'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/msysgit195/git/perl'
i.e. the commands for the PM.stamp process are listed, rather than
executed as may have been hoped.
I've tried hacking the plus(+) prefix onto the "perl/PM.stamp: FORCE"
rule, but it gave the same error.
What would be the right way of making a dry-run produce a suitable
complete output? Make files are not something I normally delve into.
--
Philip
[1] https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/blob/master/bin/msvc-build
[2]
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/buildsystems/engine.pl#L75
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