Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/22/18:36:23
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 AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 10:48 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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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