From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from omta001.cacentral1.a.cloudfilter.net (omta001.cacentral1.a.cloudfilter.net [3.97.99.32]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4927E3852746 for ; Wed, 10 May 2023 16:22:04 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 4927E3852746 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=Shaw.ca Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=shaw.ca Received: from shw-obgw-4001a.ext.cloudfilter.net ([10.228.9.142]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id wlR4pyXhuLAoIwmZnpHyKR; Wed, 10 May 2023 16:22:03 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=shaw.ca; s=s20180605; t=1683735723; bh=dZNS2sbFnjnIbOqri1plqVW80q6Z5RMd0ypc+ANmHtM=; h=Date:Reply-To:Subject:To:References:From:In-Reply-To; b=KXmIq7DV78UDeiHrHXVhXlLrG+UVk7C2lByquxPTx8V5KCu59Dt1MWqmSstc6ezV1 1Sa/ivYgSVCTjRCwt0XCSrW3YqZzqX7FRZ/uLevmpjAitnWpgaPYHrtBq6akbpbDc7 4iR3cR29Dr9Xw5ZkoNqqgKEHZ4ISo1Y9ykTD/h78M5b9TsOO17O2E3HKIHHPdeq7Mf ZcopMAGljJ9uR834hOHPF037fb+lPlPf1JL/chlixjyojiTZz+IRskPQH/DpwKT0Zd o8xUg8rkHCrAxooE4h8U9Xxd8ExT+Ym7jZygE5rS8EHcrCU0O/o5V1BE7XijY+zYIf DZeHkNoXb7orw== Received: from [10.0.0.5] ([184.64.102.149]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id wmZmp3RnOHFsOwmZnpSeFK; Wed, 10 May 2023 16:22:03 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=XZqaca15 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=645bc4ab a=DxHlV3/gbUaP7LOF0QAmaA==:117 a=DxHlV3/gbUaP7LOF0QAmaA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=7392p9bmP1SmsWvOWsUA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Message-ID: <94b454a2-57e2-56e8-4c69-6c2505de98d1@Shaw.ca> Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 10:22:02 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.10.1 Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygport injects unexpected parameter Content-Language: en-CA To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <06d13c30-bde6-12ed-5c8d-4b38d1d40334@towo.net> From: Brian Inglis Organization: Inglis In-Reply-To: <06d13c30-bde6-12ed-5c8d-4b38d1d40334@towo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4xfBeKC/9B12xE9zd0jIV+CJcg1AGl/Ludq17mWJuAN7P8EaBRD0k/4MUoSRPro67ept3YHDpzplXk2BrfLnJeY8pwt5KiWSuy86FzKmQEjXPCdq2AAUCm 5veetG4vzTh6UNiamseYQjLuqaLrwEDNHafO0I/PeEO4LxrHDbDUGYyRmZ8art+U0wWgCjD98euBSA== X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,NICE_REPLY_A,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: 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 La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer but when there is no more to cut -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry