Re: Can't configure setup.exe from CVS [was RE: setup.exe 2.427 problem with installation from rsync mirrors]

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

Dave Korn wrote:
>  This calls for a little filtering of the mirrors.txt list in setup, 
> doesn't
> it?
>
>  I was going to suggest this:
>
> Index: site.cc
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/cygwin-apps/setup/site.cc,v
> retrieving revision 2.34
> diff -p -u -p -u -r2.34 site.cc
> --- site.cc 25 Oct 2004 17:06:08 -0000 2.34
> +++ site.cc 17 Dec 2004 15:34:37 -0000
> @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ get_site_list (HINSTANCE h, HWND owner)
>       while (eol > bol && eol[-1] == '\r')
>  eol--;
>       *eol = 0;
> -      if (bol[0] != '#' && bol[0] > ' ')
> +      if (bol[0] != '#' && bol[0] > ' ' && strnicmp (bol, "rsync", 5))
>  {
>    char *semi = strchr (bol, ';');
>    if (semi)

Thanks, I applied something base on it.

> but something's borked in autotools-land, and after running aclocal, 
> autoconf
> and automake, my attempts to run configure using:
>
> ../apps/setup/configure -C --enable-dependencies --disable-shared
> --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --build=i686-pc-cygwin 'CC=gcc -mno-cygwin' 
> 'CXX=g++
> -mno-cygwin' --enable-maintainer-mode
>
> end in failure:
>
> checking for i686-pc-mingw32-efc... no
> checking for i686-pc-mingw32-pgf95... no
> checking for i686-pc-mingw32-lf95... no
> checking for i686-pc-mingw32-gfortran... no
> checking for g77... g77
> checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... (cached) yes
> checking whether g77 accepts -g... (cached) yes
> ../apps/setup/configure: line 1: test: =: unary operator expected
> checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 8192
> checking command to parse nm output from gcc -mno-cygwin object... dk@mace
> /usr/build/obj-apps>
>
>
>  Note that (despite whatever wrapping my mailer has done) that command 
> prompt
> appears on the same line as the "checking command to parse nm output" 
> message
> immediately after the dots; something has failed so badly it's crashed 
> right out
> of the configure script without so much as an error message.

That's extremely bizarre.

What if you use the ./bootstrap.sh script in setup's directory?

Because I've been using that successfully on a perfectly standard cygwin 
install since I can remember.

Is there really an invocation of test on line 1 of the configure script?

Is it possible that test is somehow running some non-cygwin command?

>  Diagnosing auto-* problems is a bit out of my field, but could this 
> output
> from aclocal perhaps be what's gone wrong?
>
> dk@mace /usr/build/apps/setup> aclocal
> /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4:5: warning: underquoted definition of
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES
>  run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
>  or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
> /usr/share/aclocal/libsmi.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of
> AM_PATH_LIBSMI
> /usr/share/aclocal/freetype2.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of
> AC_CHECK_FT2
> /usr/share/aclocal/cppunit.m4:4: warning: underquoted definition of
> AM_PATH_CPPUNIT

No, those are harmless (though annoying - I've asked the pkgconfig and 
freetype maintainers to fix but got no reply -  I guess the cppunit and 
libsmi maintainers need a message too).

Max.


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