[tlbuild] HPux again

[Jonathan Kew]

On 4 Jun 2008, at 9:25 pm, Vladimir Volovich wrote:

> "TA" == Tim Arnold writes:
>
>  TA> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./..  -I../../libs/obsdcompat
>  TA> -I../../libs/obsdcompat/.. -I./../../libs/obsdcompat
>  TA> -I./../../libs/obsdcompat/..  -I./../../libs/zlib
>  TA> -I./../../libs/libpng -I./../../libs/xpdf
>  TA> -Dextra_version_info=`date +-%Y%m%d%H` -g -O2 -c -I./synctex
>  TA> -I../../libs/zlib -I./../../libs/zlib -o synctex_parser.o
>  TA> synctex/synctex_parser.c gcc -o synctex synctex_main.o
>  TA> synctex_parser.o ../../libs/zlib/libz.a /usr/ccs/bin/ld: Can't
>  TA> create synctex /usr/ccs/bin/ld: Is a directory collect2: ld
>  TA> returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [synctex] Error 1 make[2]:
>  TA> Leaving directory
>  TA> `/r/ge.unx.sas.com/vol/vol10/u101/tiarno/texlive2008/source/ 
> texk/web2c'
>  TA> make[1]: Leaving directory
>  TA> `/r/ge.unx.sas.com/vol/vol10/u101/tiarno/texlive2008/source/texk'
>  TA> make: *** [all] Error 1
>
>  TA> I don't understand this, but the 'Is a directory' looks pretty
>  TA> wrong, so I checked:
>
> what is happening is: you are building in the source tree, instead of
> using  the Build script.
>
> in the source/texk/web2c directory, there's a synctex subdirectory.

Aha, you're absolutely right (of course).

For this reason, it would be better to name the directory  
"synctexdir" (like pdftexdir, xetexdir, etc). I propose that we do  
this ASAP (with the corresponding makefile tweaks, etc): I'll try to  
work on it tomorrow, time permitting, unless I hear any objections --  
or unless you'd like to go ahead before then!

(Tim, even once this is fixed, I'd still recommend building in a  
separate Work tree -- makes it much easier to keep track of anything  
you're doing to the sources locally during the process, and to start  
completely fresh whenever you want to.)

JK