Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:21:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: bertrand marquis cc: Jani tiainen , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: configure-script failure In-Reply-To: <1093848499.4374.2.camel@bma.sysgo.com> Message-ID: References: <4132C01D DOT 6080502 AT luukku DOT com> <1093848499 DOT 4374 DOT 2 DOT camel AT bma DOT sysgo DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-559023410-851401618-1093875706=:24572" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 ---559023410-851401618-1093875706=:24572 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, bertrand marquis wrote: > Le lun 30/08/2004 à 07:50, Jani tiainen a écrit : > > Why sometimes running ./configure doesn't work? > > > > Usually it reports that some feature is missing, but running second time > > with same parameters doesn't produce error.. > > > > like: > > > > configure --prefix=/target --disable-static > > > > in first run I usually get "no such feature 'static'" (or similiar). On > > second run with exactly same parameters it works. > > > > Any explanations for a such behavior? > > Hello i run through the same problem from times to times running > configure scripts and i didn't find any other solution than running the > configure again. This is quite borring and i was not able to find any > solution. > > I would also be interested in a solution or an explanation if someone > has one. The usual advice for any configure problem is to look at the config.log file from the failed run of configure (beware, the file is overwritten every time configure is run). FWIW, you and Jani may have different problems altogether. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw ---559023410-851401618-1093875706=:24572 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- 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/ ---559023410-851401618-1093875706=:24572--