configure-script failure
Peter Ekberg
peda@axentia.se
Mon Aug 30 16:08:00 GMT 2004
Igor wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Jani tiainen wrote:
>
> > 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..
>
> "configure -v"? "bash -x configure"? Come on, man, do some
> *debugging*!
> Igor
Attached is the output of a bash -x run of my testcase, available here:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg01025.html
Looks like a bug to me as "extra-includes" is alphanumeric, which I
believe is what is being tested.
Cheers,
Peter
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