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 11:47:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Jani tiainen cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: configure-script failure In-Reply-To: <41334B51.4030507@luukku.com> Message-ID: References: <4132C01D DOT 6080502 AT luukku DOT com> <1093848499 DOT 4374 DOT 2 DOT camel AT bma DOT sysgo DOT com> <20040830150019 DOT GG8900 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <41334B51 DOT 4030507 AT luukku DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII; FORMAT=flowed Content-ID: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Jani tiainen wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:21:46AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, bertrand marquis wrote: > > > > > > > Le lun 30/08/2004 ? 07:50, Jani tiainen a ?crit : > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > However, regardless of whether they are similar or not, we'd actually > > need *details* for figuring out problems like this, i.e., > > > > http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > > > Otherwise, these messages boil down to: > > > > "I noticed that sometimes my car won't start but then I wait a little > > while and it does!" > > > > "I have the same problem! Can someone help?" > > Help, it appeared again... =) > > Well here is more info: > > No config.log appears to be generated (or there is previous log, not even > erased), error produced is: > > $ ./configure --disable-gtk-doc --prefix=/target --disable-static > configure: error: invalid feature name: static > > Error seems to change according to last parameter, but not always. Sometimes I > get error regarding "gtk-doc". > > It does appear often, but "randomly". I haven't noticed difference > between several configure scripts run. Observation shows that it might > something to do that configure script is fetched from HD instead of > memory cache.. "configure -v"? "bash -x configure"? Come on, man, do some *debugging*! 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 -- 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/