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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Comments: In reply to Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
 "Re: 5.0.2-test-2 is available" (Dec  2,  4:51pm)
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On Dec 2,  4:51pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: 5.0.2-test-2 is available
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} > Out of curiosity, do you have yodl installed on Cygwin?  If not, how are
} > you even getting this far in the build process?  zshbuiltins.1 should
} > not exist, so the dependency for help.txt can't be satisfied, and perl
} > should never even be run ...?
} 
} At some point you get empty files called zshbuiltins.1 etc. created.

Aha; that's because "yodl" has been replaced by ": yodl" and the build
system looks for that and creates empty files so that "make" won't exit
early when yodl is not installed.  I suspect this could be cleaned up a
different way, but it's a bit late for that for 5.0.3.

Did you try the patch that simply removes the "false;" from the help.txt
rule?  Doesn't suppress the "command not found" output etc. but ...