[LLVMdev] [Cygwin] groff build error - semi solved

Aaron Gray angray at beeb.net
Fri May 20 07:55:14 PDT 2005


>Yeah, that's exactly right, Aaron. "true" is a command that simply
>returns with an exit status of 0 and ignores its arguments. When pod2man
>can't be found we define the variable that specifies its path as "true
>pod2man". This allows the command that should have been run to be shown
>while at the same time not interrupting the makefile with a failure.
>This is entirely intentional.
>
>Once you've installed Perl, you need to reconfigure your build tree to
>get the appropriate variable defined properly. Check your
>Makefile.config file (generated by configure) to determine if the PERL
>variable has been set properly. Also look for anything else that starts
>with "true" as you'll need those programs too.

Okay, I feel very very dumb, really not used to GNU, Cygwin and *nix.

Okay I will check the configuration properly.

Thanks,

Aaron





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