Build error on branch libreoffice-5-0-4

Chris Sherlock chris.sherlock79 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 13:46:57 PST 2016


Thanks Michael, appreciate the fix!

If I had a Windows machine currently I’d do a test :-)

Chris

> On 7 Jan 2016, at 9:55 PM, Michael Stahl <mstahl at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 04.01.2016 04:58, Chris Sherlock wrote:
>> I’ve done a quick check of the cygwin documentation, and they say the following:
>> 
>>    "A few Windows tools, such as find.exe, link.exe andsort.exe, may conflict 
>>     with the Cygwin versions make sure that you use the full path (/usr/bin/find) 
>>     or that your Cygwin bin directory comes first in your PATH." [1]
>> 
>> 1. https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html
>> 
>> I’m afraid I’m not at all experienced with the whole gbuild process, and I honestly
>> dare not touch this because of that complete lack of knowledge - but can someone
>> check that we are actually doing this on Windows builds?
> 
> unfortunately we don't, but i've fixed that on master with commit
> e9cd5087366f930efd89a95c0a5610fe8f375581
> 
>>>> Without the adapted $PATH, my build uses Windows version of "sort",
>>>> which adds Windows newlines to sorted files - like the ilist files -
>>>> which break the build.
> 
> can somebody with such a PATH please test if it builds now without extra
> setup?
> 
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