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Re: autoconf problem on cygwin


At 06:01 PM 7/22/2005, you wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 17:41 -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
>> At 05:17 PM 7/22/2005, you wrote:
>> >I was asked by some coworkers to investigate upgrading out internal
>> >cygwin distribution to the lastest distribution.  So this morning I
>> >downloaded the latest cygwin and installed it on a windows XP box.
>> >
>> >One of the first things I tried doing was to run aclocal and I recieved
>> >this error message.
>> >
>> >/development $ aclocal
>> >/usr/share/aclocal/libsmi.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_LIBSMI
>> >  run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
>> >  or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
>> >/usr/share/aclocal/freetype2.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of AC_CHECK_FT2
>> >/usr/share/aclocal/cppunit.m4:4: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_CPPUNIT
>> >ac-wrapper: /usr/bin/autom4te-2.13 is missing or not executable.
>> >            Something is very wrong.
>> >
>> >Here are the versions that cygcheck -s spits out:
>> >
>> >autoconf                2.59-2
>> >autoconf2.1             2.13-1
>> >autoconf2.5             2.59-1
>> >automake1.4             1.4p6-2
>> >automake1.6             1.6.3-2
>> >automake1.7             1.7.9-2
>> >automake1.8             1.8.5-2
>> >automake1.9             1.9.5-2
>> >
>> >What should I do to fix this problem.
>> 
>> 
>> This seems relevant, given that it's the same error:
>> 
>> <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-07/msg00361.html>
>> 
>So given the data I had, how would I know to set 
>"/usr/sbin/alternatives --set automake /usr/bin/automake-1.4"
>rather than some other version.



Is this a question?  Is it rhetorical?  If not, I would say that 
searching the email archives is always a good way to find out if others
have seen a problem you're having.






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