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 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:58:11 -0500 From: Brian Ford Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Automake version 1.4 in CygWin vs. current Automake 1.9.2 ... In-Reply-To: <433D94CB.7060106@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Message-ID: References: <433CE47C.A27ECBEF@dessent.net> <433D94CB.7060106@cwilson.fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Charles Wilson wrote: > 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: It didn't, but reexecuting the post install scripts fixed it. Thanks. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- 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/