RE: autoconf issues [often when upgrading from 2.13->2.53a]

["Harig, Mark A." <maharig@idirect.net>]

Have you tried downgrading to the stable tools (2.13) to see if the
problem is still occurring, or is that not an option (i.e, the
configure.in requires 2.53)?
I had a problem recently where it appeared that sed was running in an
infinite loop.  When I downgraded to the stable tools, the problem
disappeared.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Wourms [mailto:nwourms@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 10:48 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: autoconf issues [often when upgrading from 2.13->2.53a]
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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