From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygport injects unexpected parameter
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 10:22:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94b454a2-57e2-56e8-4c69-6c2505de98d1@Shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06d13c30-bde6-12ed-5c8d-4b38d1d40334@towo.net>
On 2023-05-10 01:57, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> I'm trying to build xterm 380 and got two problems in the cygport compile step:
> 1.
> *** ERROR: could not determine the autoconf version used to generate
> ./configure; perhaps set AUTOCONF_VERSION?
> I don't know why a tool wants to be told its own version (or what's going on)
> but the following line in xterm.cygport seems to help:
> AUTOCONF_VERSION=$( autoconf --version | sed -e "s,.* ,," -e 1q )
As part of autoreconf, it tries to figure out what version of autoconf should be
used for configure.
Thomas Dickey uses his own autoconf package without a version definition.
For his Cygwin packages AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.52 tells autoconf to behave like his.
> 2.
> configure: error: unrecognized option: --docdir=/usr/share/doc/xterm
> This seems to be injected by the cygconf function, and the package configure
> script does not know it.
You could skip cygconf and run autoreconf ... then $S/configure with the other
--...dir and option variables required.
--
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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