Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 19:42:59 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Automake 1.5 Message-ID: <20010909194259.B11565@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:35:56PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: >"Ronald Landheer" writes: >>Recently, I have re-installed and updated Cygwin (the update part is >>done every Sunday) and have installed Automake 1.5 in the process. > >[...] > >>Thus, Automake 1.5 broke my bootstrap script and does not allow me to >>compile Eleanor without problems any more. My questions are: > >I have also had to downgrade this stuff, becuase the latest version of >autoconf insists on using config.sub even if all you want to do is >figure out the value of EXEHDR. Previous versions of autoconf didn't >require that. The problem is that the current version of automake >doesn't know to include config.sub even though autoconf needs it :-( FWIW, Chuck Wilson has also identified some incompatibilities between the newest version of autoconf and libiberty's configure.in. I wonder if we should drop back to an older version for a while in the cygwin distro. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/