Problem reapplying patch for the HIXS system

[Michael Ambrus <ambrmi09 at gmail dot com>]

Hi,
A few years back I experimented with a system which I called HIXS in
newlib-1.14.0/newlib/libc/sys/. I'm trying to re-apply the patch (which
used to work perfectly) to newlib-1.18.0 but for some reason it won't
build.

Adding an extra printout in HIXS configure.in:
 
AC_MSG_NOTICE([===== Running configure for HIXS <$PACKAGE_NAME> version
<$PACKAGE_VERSION> ====])

As far as I can see from from the build/configure logs, the configure
script for hixs is never run. A snippet from the build however shows:

==========================================================================================
Making all in sys
make[8]: Entering directory
`/tmp/BO/arm-hixs-elf/newlib-1.18.0/arm-hixs-elf/thumb/newlib/libc/sys'
Making all in hixs
/bin/bash: line 17: cd: hixs: No such file or directory
Making all in .
make[9]: Entering directory
`/tmp/BO/arm-hixs-elf/newlib-1.18.0/arm-hixs-elf/thumb/newlib/libc/sys'
make[9]: *** No rule to make target `hixs/lib.a', needed by `lib.a'.
==========================================================================================

Seems the build-system has got it half-way right. It expects HIXS to be
where it should, but it has not created the directory nor run the the
configure script for it?

What's happened, has there been there any fundamental changes in the
build-system or am I missing something (forgotten but) obvious?

Any input/hints much appreciated.

Regards
Michael Ambrus
http://kato.homelinux.org/~tinker/