Re: slrn on Cygwin makefile bug

* Brian Salter-Duke on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 15:25:25 +1000
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:00:58AM -0400, Rudy Taraschi wrote:
>> Brian Salter-Duke <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> It works for me except for one small problem. On cygwin, "INSTALL' and
>>> "install" are the same. You have to mv INSTALL to INSTALL.txt to make
>>> "make install" work and not say it is up to date. That file should be
>>> renamed in the release.

For future releases it has been fixed in svn:

$ svn log -vr 293
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r293 | jedsoft | 2008-08-19 17:10:27 +0200 (Tue, 19 Aug 2008) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
   D /trunk/INSTALL
   A /trunk/INSTALL.txt (from /trunk/INSTALL:291)
   M /trunk/README

Renamed INSTALL to INSTALL.txt

------------------------------------------------------------------------

>> The problem you mention is common to pretty much every Cygwin package
>> that's built from source;

The prob appears on other case-insensitive file systems too.

>> a file named INSTALL, like README, is
>> standard in many source tarballs.  While your solution works
>> perfectly, it's not the "right" solution.  I get around the problem to
>> same way you do BTW.
> 
> What is the right solution?

Another solution is to put a .PHONY: install directive in the
Makefile, or, as for slrn the Makefile is generated, in
autoconf/Makefile.in.

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