I broke cygport

Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Wed Oct 18 04:32:00 GMT 2006


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Charles Wilson wrote:
> Here's the problem: libtool (pre-version 2.0) ships with a subproject --
> separately configured -- called libltdl.  However, the subproject does
> NOT include the GNU "required" files like README, AUTHORS, etc.  Those
> are all up at the top level.  Yet, cygautoreconf complains about it:
> 
>>>> Compiling libtool1.5-1.5.23a-1
> touch: cannot touch `[libltdl]/AUTHORS': No such file or directory
> touch: cannot touch `[libltdl]/COPYING': No such file or directory
> touch: cannot touch `[libltdl]/ChangeLog': No such file or directory
> touch: cannot touch `[libltdl]/INSTALL': No such file or directory
> touch: cannot touch `[libltdl]/NEWS': No such file or directory
> touch: cannot touch `[libltdl]/README': No such file or directory

CVS cygport touches the standard files not only in the top directory,
but in AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS as well, to prevent automake errors when those
files are missing.  The problem is that my parsing didn't support m4
square-bracket quoting.

I just checked in a fix for this; please test.


Yaakov
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