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RE: Problems building autoconf
- To: "'McDermott, Alastair'" <Alastair dot McDermott at softwareag dot com>, michael-ring at t-online dot de
- Subject: RE: Problems building autoconf
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-gmbh dot de>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:17:48 +0200
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Hi Michael,
great that it works!
Another hint I learned years ago from Tcl/Tk:
Always "rm config.cache;make clean" first!
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McDermott, Alastair [SMTP:Alastair.McDermott@softwareag.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 13:38
> To: michael-ring@t-online.de
> Cc: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: RE: Problems building autoconf
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> > Aargh....
>
> Tell me about it! :-)
>
> > please do a sh -x ./configure --prefix=/usr >autoconf.log
> > I saw that you configured from //e/ which means that you are using
> > textmode (Cygwin's default for drives)
> >
> > could you please make sure that / is mounted binary amd then create
> a
> > directory test and unpack autoconf to this dir.
> > Perhaps it works on a binary mount. Do this test before doing the sh
> > -x thing.
>
> Hah, well what should I have expected? It worked! :-)
> So the problem was that autoconf must be installed onto a binary mode
> drive
> ... doh.
>
> > May the force be with you
>
> I think I owe you a couple of pints of Guinness next time you're in
> Dublin!
>
> Thanks,
> Alastair.
>
> --
> Alastair McDermott,
> Software AG R&D Ireland Ltd.
>
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