Re: [Groff] building process stuck when building groff-current using MinGW

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > As a temporary workaround (so that you build succeeds), replace
> > this with
> >
> >   version=1.19
> 
> Better yet, would be for us to apply the autoconf workaround, within
> the sources; I guess I've just walked into a job here :-)

Thanks in advance :-)

> However, `make install' failed right at the bitter end, because this:
> 
>    cd $(DESTDIR)$(dataprogramdir); \
>    rm -f current; \
>    $(LN_S) $(version)$(revision) current
> 
> can never work on a native Woe32 system.  (In fact, it can only
> *ever* work if $(LN_S) resolves to `ln -s', or maybe to `ln'; there
> are systems, of which Woe32 with MSYS is one, where $(LN_S) resolves
> to `cp -p', and on such systems, this *must* *always* fail).

Indeedn, I haven't thought about systems which don't have soft links.
What workaround do you suggest?  Given the today's size of hard disks
I could imagine that copying everything to `current' is indeed the
easiest solution.  Can you take care of this problem too?


    Werner