From: Bob Calco <robert.calco@...>
Date: 2002-02-08T10:19:08+09:00
Subject: Latest CVS/Win32 build error

Anyone:

I'm trying to build the latest CVS on Win-doze, and I'm getting an error
when I attempt to run configure.bat.

I created a mswin32-build directory in my build root, and when I issue the
following:

C:\projects\ruby\mwin32-build\> ..\win32\configure.bat

I get the following:

Loading NMAKE
NMAKE: Fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'nul'
Stop.

I hadn't had this experience with 1.6.5, anybody else run into this with the
stable snapshot/current CVS? If so, any idea what the cause is? I believe I
have all the right stuff in my PATH -- nmake, cl, dumpbin, lib, rm.

The little temprorary ~tmp~.mak is created but it's when invoked via
"NMAKE -alf ~tmp~.mak" with the above error. It isn't readily apparent to me
what nul is supposed to be, so I figured while I'm poking around the various
files in \win32, I'd ask. This is the entire contents of the ~tmp~.mak file,
as generated by the configure.bat file:

####
conf = ..\win32\configure
$(conf:\=/): nul
	@del ~tmp~.mak
	@-$(MAKE) -l$(MAKEFLAGS) -f $(@D)/setup.mak \
	WIN32DIR=$(@D)

Thanks!

Sincerely,

Bob.