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Re: autoconf


On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:11:01PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Bob Rossi wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 09:45:21PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> >>Bob Rossi wrote:
> >>>On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 06:45:10PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> >>>>Bob Rossi wrote:
> >>>>>Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I'm using autoconf. I notice when I use things like
> >>>>>AC_CHECK_SIZEOF (int)
> >>>>>that the ac_cv_sizeof_int has the value of "4\r".
> >>>>>
> >>>>>There is an extra carriage return in there. I start my configure
> >>>>>script with
> >>>>>./configure --build=mingw32
> >>>>>could that be the problem?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Is there any solution to having these macro's work correctly on cygwin?
> >>>>>or did I break it by using the --build option? BTW, I can't test it
> >>>>>without the --build option because the configure script doesn't even 
> >>>>>get
> >>>>>that far otherwise, since this is a mingw package (sort of).
> >>>>Sounds to me like the file you're feeding to autoconf has DOS line 
> >>>>endings in
> >>>>it.
> >>>Yes, this is correct. The AC_CHECK_SIZEOF macro does not work with
> >>>-mno-cygwin unless there is a cygwin version of 'cat' on the path.
> >>>
> >>>Is there a standard way to resolve this problem?
> >>
> >>I'm not sure.  I'm assuming not using '-mno-cygwin' is not an option?
> >
> >Here's the full story. I'm trying to build apr. It needs to be built
> >with mingw in order to have thread support. It specifically disables
> >thread support with cygwin. So, instead of getting the mingw
> >environment, I'd like to use the cygwin environment cause I my build
> >system builds many other packages.
> >
> >I can't figure out how to get past this problem. Any help at all would
> >be greatly appreciated. 
> >
> >I even tried putting ~/bin/cat in my path, where cat does dos2unix and
> >then calls /usr/bin/cat, but that didn't work either. I'm not sure why.
> >
> >I was sort of looking for a solution that was "clean".
> 
> 
> Forgive me for being dense but why does the requirement to build apr with
> -mno-cygwin mean that you have to run configure with it?  OK, it's not
> 'clean' but what else am I missing?

Sorry, I'm very confused by your statement. I'm trying to configure/make/make
install apr. I'm running configure to prepare to build. Am I missing
something?

Bob Rossi

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