From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22026 invoked by alias); 20 Jul 2002 18:48:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 29041 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2002 14:48:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web21010.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.227.64) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Jul 2002 14:48:18 -0000 Message-ID: <20020720144817.23722.qmail@web21010.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [130.127.121.212] by web21010.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 07:48:17 PDT Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 15:21:00 -0000 From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: autoconf issues [often when upgrading from 2.13->2.53a] To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg01567.txt.bz2 Hi, I've been experiencing some strange problems with the autotools as of late. First, let me tell you what I have installed. I have updated to the latest version of all the autotools and wrapper scripts. I've been working on a few packages which required re-autotoolizing to the latest versions to support shared dll's. The problem is that lately, many of the packages get petulant when I try to pass options to them. For example: ./configure --prefix=/usr ... --enable-shared will return: shared: invalid feature name I've looked on google and I've check the mailing lists, but I can't seem to get a definitive answer on what might cause this to happen. I tried to follow the autotools script, but it isn't the easiest thing to unravel. To get around this, I have to manually edit the configure file and remove the 3 lines that do the validity test. I don't think this is the proper solution, in the long run. So, my hope is that someone has experienced this lately and can clue me in on a good way isolate what is causing this. I might note that this behaviour started happening after I upgraded to automake-1.6.2, but I can't say for sure that this is the cause of my woes. I wanted to atleast see if anyone else is aware of this on cygwin before I go posting to the autoconf list. Maybe I'm not thinking too clearly and have been working too hard on one of my packages, but this is driving me crazy. Any helpful pointers or references to some documentation I might have missed would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Nicholas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/