configure-script failure

[Jani tiainen]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:21:46AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, bertrand marquis wrote:
>>
>>>Le lun 30/08/2004 ?  07:50, Jani tiainen a ?crit :
>>>
>>>>Why sometimes running ./configure doesn't work?
>>>>
>>>>Usually it reports that some feature is missing, but running second
>>>>time with same parameters doesn't produce error..
>>>>
>>>>like:
>>>>
>>>>configure --prefix=/target --disable-static
>>>>
>>>>in first run I usually get "no such feature 'static'" (or similiar).
>>>>On second run with exactly same parameters it works.
>>>>
>>>>Any explanations for a such behavior?
>>>
>>>Hello i run through the same problem from times to times running
>>>configure scripts and i didn't find any other solution than running the
>>>configure again.  This is quite borring and i was not able to find any
>>>solution.
>>>
>>>I would also be interested in a solution or an explanation if someone
>>>has one.
>>
>>The usual advice for any configure problem is to look at the config.log
>>file from the failed run of configure (beware, the file is overwritten
>>every time configure is run).  FWIW, you and Jani may have different
>>problems altogether.
> 
> 
> However, regardless of whether they are similar or not, we'd actually
> need *details* for figuring out problems like this, i.e.,
> 
> http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> 
> Otherwise, these messages boil down to:
> 
> "I noticed that sometimes my car won't start but then I wait a little
> while and it does!"
> 
> "I have the same problem!  Can someone help?"


Help, it appeared again... =)

Well here is more info:

No config.log appears to be generated (or there is previous log, not 
even erased), error produced is:

$ ./configure --disable-gtk-doc --prefix=/target --disable-static
configure: error: invalid feature name: static


Error seems to change according to last parameter, but not always. 
Sometimes I get error regarding "gtk-doc".

It does appear often, but "randomly". I haven't noticed difference 
between several configure scripts run. Observation shows that it might 
something to do that configure script is fetched from HD instead of 
memory cache..

And finally output from cygcheck...

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