Re: windows cmd for ./configure

[Tim Prince <n8tm at aol dot com>]

On 4/30/2011 7:50 AM, Sayth Renshaw wrote:
> Hi I am haaving trouble locating the answer to this question due to
> the amount of results configure brings in the archives and google.
>
> I am trying to use ./configure&&  make on the command line however the
> '.' in ./configure causes an error. I know my make works as I have
> used it already.
>
> What is the cygwin version of ./configure&&  make for building
> programs on windows. I am trying to build 'auctex'
If the application is set up to be installed via configure, it should 
provide its own specific configure script, as it seems auctex has done. 
 Note that many applications require use of configure in the gnu 
standard way (make a new clean directory and cd into it, run the 
application's configure script from there).
I'm sure there is plenty of bad advice about configure for other 
applications available by web search.  I note that the search string 
"configure auctex" shows that there apparently is a mail list devoted to 
auctex, where questions (after checking the instructions) might better 
be answered.  Even though this list is frequented by a few people active 
in the past on that list, I have probably gone well beyond the tolerance 
of this list for generalities about applications not specifically 
supported here.

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Tim Prince

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