Re: [PATCH] Use automake (v3)

[Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>]

On Wed, 2020-12-02 at 18:03 +0000, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 02/12/2020 17:05, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> > On Dec  2 15:36, Jon Turney wrote:
> > > On 01/12/2020 09:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > What bugs me is that the mingw executables are built in
> > > > utils/mingw,
> > > > but the object files are still in utils.  Any problem
> > > > generating the
> > > > object files in utils/mingw, too?
> > > 
> > > Not easily.
> > > 
> > > This behaviour can be turned off by not using the 'subdir-
> > > objects' automake
> > > option.
> > > 
> > > But then automake warns that option is disabled (since it's going
> > > to be the
> > > default in future).
> > 
> > So why not just move the mingw source files to utils/mingw, too?
> 
> There's probably some scope for doing that, but not in all cases, as 
> some files are built multiple times with different compilers and/or
> flags.
> 
> e.g. path.cc is built with a cygwin compiler and -DFSTAB as part of 
> mount, with a MinGW compiler as part of cygcheck, and with a MinGW 
> compiler and -DTESTSUITE as part of path-testsuite.

Then something like:

$ cat > winsup/utils/mingw/path.cc <<_EOF
#define MINGW // whatever is needed here...
#include "../path.cc"
_EOF

??

-- 
Yaakov