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Re: autoconf problem on cygwin
Actually, checking the output of the makefile/configure would not have
helped me. The reason is that I and a few of my coworkers use
aclocal/autoconf in maintaining some software packages. When I upgraded
Cygwin (admittedly the last Cygwin we were using is 2 years old), one of
the things that I needed to check is that the development tools still
work for us. Therefore, I wasn't trying to rebuid a configure for a
cygwin package but one that I maintain.
Secondly, how was I to know that running setalternatives for automake
would solve the problem. After all as far as I could tell the problem
was with autoconf. I didn't expect the problem to be in a different
package than the one that appeared to have a problem.
The version that I have been told to specify is the oldest in the list
for automake and I was runing an autoconf command. What should have
clued me that I would have to set the version to the oldest automake in
the list?
The reason I asked the question "... how was I to know ..." was so that
I would know how to diagnose the problem.
Either way, I do want to thank you and Larry for your answers. They
were both helpful. I haven't tried the suggested solution yet but plan
on doing so tomorrow morning.
sps
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 16:09 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Larry Hall wrote:
>
> > Is this a question? Is it rhetorical? If not, I would say that
> > searching the email archives is always a good way to find out if others
> > have seen a problem you're having.
>
> I think what sps was saying was, how was he supposed to know that he
> needed to be using automake-1.4 in the first place.
> ...<snip>...
> But you would NOT, unfortunately, find any mention of the actual release
> of the new autotool packages, because with all the new packages I
> released last month, I forgot to actually announce the new autotools.
> This is definitely my fault. I'll correct that later this evening.
>
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