On May 13 07:49, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > On May 13 06:55, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > I'm trying to build pinfo 0.6.10 in 64-bit. The configure script halts, > > > claiming "curses is not usable". The command that fails is: > > > > > > gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 -I/usr/include -L/usr/lib -lncursesw > > > conftest.c > > > > > > and this fails because the order of the arguments is wrong. The command > > > should be > > > > > > gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 -I/usr/include conftest.c -L/usr/lib > > > -lncursesw > > > > > > and that succeeds. So my question is really an autoconf question: How > > > can I tell autoconf to fix the order of the compiler arguments? > > > > > > My autoconf knowledge is pretty thin I'm afraid. I can provide the > > > configure.ac script if that would be helpful. The source is old - I > > > think the last real update was in 2007, with a small update posted in > > > 2010. > > > > Doesn't calling `autoreconf' fix this problem? If so, if you use > > cygport, the default build strategy contains the autoreconf step. > > If you defin your own build function, call cygautoreconf as first > > step after `cd ${B}'. > > No, unfortunately it doesn't. I ran 'autoreconf -i' first. autoreconf -f -i? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat