Re: configure error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in ../.. "../../winsup/cygwin"/../..

[Matthias Andree <matthias dot andree at gmx dot de>]

Am 19.07.2010 17:29, schrieb Ryan McLeod:
> I get the above error when I am trying to cross-compile openswan for
> cygwin as laid out here:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00175.html
> 
> The only thing i do differently is:
> 
> ../../winsup/configure --prefix=/myprefix/cross
> --target=i686-pc-cygwin --without-headers \
> 
> --with-newlib --disable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++
> 
> changes to:
> 
> ../winsup/configure --prefix=/myprefix/xelerance/cross/win2k
> --target=i686-pc-cygwin --without-headers \
> 
> --with-newlib --disable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++
> 
> The prefix change is mentioned as that in the openswan documents, but
> considering i only go up one directory from winsup
> 
> and into a build directory from there, not sure why he specified
> ../../winsup. I did have to copy install-sh, config.guess and
> config.sub into the winsup directory, as i was getting configure
> errors then with the install-sh. But now its asking for it
> 
> in a directory that seems to be irrelevant to the install. configure
> error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh
> in ../.. "../../winsup/cygwin"/../..
> 
> Thanks for any assistance.

Without looking at the actual issue (no time), and just as a pointer to a solution:

If autoconf/automake are involved, there are pre-defined variables such as
$(srcdir), $(top_srcdir) and similar that could replace hard-coded prefixes such
as "../..".

Details: Please see the "Preset Output Variables" section in the autoconf manual.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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