Re: cygwin's autoconf?

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

Lapo Luchini <lapo@lapo.it> wrote:

> Hi!
> Finally I decided to study seriously the autotools (thanks for the
> references, Nicholas!).. but I have a small problem:
>
> (cyberone is my CygWin/WinXP desktop machine, cyberx is my FreeBSD
> home-server machine)
> cyberone$ autoreconf
> cyberone$ rsync -vrLe ssh --delete * lapo@cyberx:project/
> cyberx$ ./configure
> [normal configure output]
> cyberx$ make
> cd . && /bin/sh $(HOME)/project/config/missing --run autoconf
> FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.54 or higher is required for this
> script
>
> Now.. either I've got it completely wrong in my head or autoconf on a
> "user" PC should be needed only if configure.in/Makefile.am are
> modified? Maybe a problem with the granularity of Windows filetimes?

I believe that autoreconf isn't entirely reliable.

This is the reason that projects (e.g. libgetopt++) often have a
bootstrap.sh which runs the relevant autotools.

Max.


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