From: jeff DOT paulsen AT poorman-douglas DOT com (Jeff Paulsen) Subject: FW: Strange problem with XEmacs ./configure 16 Jun 1998 04:57:40 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: "'xemacs-nt AT xemacs DOT org'" , "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" Stil haven't gotten any help on this... It's as if all of the variables in all of my shell scripts are always empty... and there's something else going on. I really have no idea what might be causing this, as it persists even after reinstalling CygWin. This is what I get: /usr/src/xemacs-21.0-b42$ ./configure : Usage error: The directory specified with the `--srcdir' option, ', doesn't seem to contain the XEmacs sources. You should ' script at the top of the XEmacs source tree, or use the `--srcdir' option to specify the XEmacs source directory. --help' to show usage. The configure script should not produce output like this; this is the relevant section of it. if test ! -f "$srcdir/src/lisp.h" -o \ ! -f "$srcdir/lisp/version.el" ; then (echo "$progname: Usage error:" echo " " "The directory specified with the \`--srcdir' option, \`$srcdir', doesn't seem to contain the XEmacs sources. You should either run the \`$progname' script at the top of the XEmacs source tree, or use the \`--srcdir' option to specify the XEmacs source directory." echo " Use \`$progname --help' to show usage.") >&2 && exit 1 As you can see, lines containing variables lose when passed to echo. I have reinstalled both the XEmacs source and Cygwin b19.2; here is a uname -a /usr/src/xemacs-21.0-b42$ uname -a CYGWIN32_95 JEFF-PAULSEN 4.0 19.2 i586 unknown Anyone have ANY idea what this is about? -- Jeff Paulsen jeff DOT paulsen AT poorman-douglas DOT com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".