From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 82320 invoked by alias); 2 Oct 2016 06:39:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 82307 invoked by uid 89); 2 Oct 2016 06:39:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DATE_IN_PAST_03_06,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*F:D*net.au, communities, Hx-languages-length:1472, letting X-HELO: mail108.syd.optusnet.com.au Received: from mail108.syd.optusnet.com.au (HELO mail108.syd.optusnet.com.au) (211.29.132.59) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 06:39:01 +0000 Received: from dimstar.local.net (c110-22-56-26.eburwd6.vic.optusnet.com.au [110.22.56.26]) by mail108.syd.optusnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492301A38F1 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2016 17:38:58 +1100 (AEDT) Received: (qmail 5277 invoked by uid 501); 2 Oct 2016 02:21:10 -0000 Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 06:55:00 -0000 From: Duncan Roe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Autotools support group, forum, mailing list, ??? Message-ID: <20161002022110.GA3117@dimstar.local.net> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <0399225a-2817-5528-7cc7-d3f862e010c9@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0399225a-2817-5528-7cc7-d3f862e010c9@yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-Optus-CM-Score: 0 X-Optus-CM-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=EfU1O6SC c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=/xIuaNGu1NPzt0yKkvdCVQ==:117 a=/xIuaNGu1NPzt0yKkvdCVQ==:17 a=L9H7d07YOLsA:10 a=9cW_t1CCXrUA:10 a=s5jvgZ67dGcA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=CH0kA5CcgfcA:10 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=JRAMgZkjyYXBZfUJf3YA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=3ejbLR7u98AA:10 a=UHDnOHsDppoA:10 a=_FVE-zBwftR9WsbkzFJk:22 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00014.txt.bz2 On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 06:13:07PM -0400, HiTech HiTouch wrote: > Please forgive the somewhat off topic, but people who use Autotools and > Mingw hang here and may be able to point me. > > I'm looking for a central place where people ask questions about Autotools > (autoconf automake, etc.). My google-ing finds (in addition to the manuals) > only mailing list and blogs, all of which haven't had significant activity > for years, like 2013, 2007, 2004. I find no BBS systems (forums) in use. > > The most questioners seem to be on the various stackexchange communities, > pick one, pick many. > > Where should one go to ask questions, pray tell? > > > PS: I'm trying to build the tool chain for Arduino IDE by cross compiling. > I am using MinGW 4.9.2 on WIndows XP SP3 32 bit to produce tools that run on > native win32 (32 bit windows) and produce code for ARM. I've been given the > avr tool chain package produced using Autotools for my starting point. > > PPS: The Autotools anchor, > https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html, has a bad pointer to > its mailing list archive. Letting google do the work, there is nothing in > that last several years for XP, Windows, or win32 save for spam. > Hi HiTech, Have you tried "info Automake" and "info Autoconf" on your installation? They give you much more information than the man pages - automake even has a "Hello World" example. Cheers ... Duncan. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple