cygport injects unexpected parameter

[Brian Inglis]

On 2023-05-10 01:57, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> I'm trying to build xterm 380 and got two problems in the cygport compile step:
> 1.
> *** ERROR: could not determine the autoconf version used to generate 
> ./configure; perhaps set AUTOCONF_VERSION?
> I don't know why a tool wants to be told its own version (or what's going on) 
> but the following line in xterm.cygport seems to help:
> AUTOCONF_VERSION=$( autoconf --version | sed -e "s,.* ,," -e 1q )

As part of autoreconf, it tries to figure out what version of autoconf should be 
used for configure.
Thomas Dickey uses his own autoconf package without a version definition.
For his Cygwin packages AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.52 tells autoconf to behave like his.

> 2.
> configure: error: unrecognized option: --docdir=/usr/share/doc/xterm
> This seems to be injected by the cygconf function, and the package configure 
> script does not know it.

You could skip cygconf and run autoreconf ... then $S/configure with the other 
--...dir and option variables required.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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