Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <433D94CB.7060106@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:40:59 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Automake version 1.4 in CygWin vs. current Automake 1.9.2 ... References: <433CE47C.A27ECBEF@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Brian Ford wrote: > Incidentally, the command referenced there: > > /usr/sbin/alternatives --set automake /usr/bin/automake-1.4 > > never worked for me. I just tried all permutations of automake again and > only /usr/bin/automake-1.9 is accepted. All others give something like: > > /usr/bin/automake-1.4 has not been configured as an alternative for > automake Sounds like, for whatever reason, the postinstall scripts were never executed. Take a look at /var/lib/alternatives/automake. It should look something like this: -----------clip---------- auto /usr/bin/automake aclocal /usr/bin/aclocal automake-info /usr/share/info/automake.info.gz /usr/bin/automake-1.4 10 /usr/bin/aclocal-1.4 /usr/bin/automake-1.6 20 /usr/bin/aclocal-1.6 /usr/bin/automake-1.7 30 /usr/bin/aclocal-1.7 /usr/bin/automake-1.8 40 /usr/bin/aclocal-1.8 /usr/bin/automake-1.9 50 /usr/bin/aclocal-1.9 /usr/share/info/automake1.9.info.gz -----------clip---------- -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/