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: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:17:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Mark Aufflick cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ./configure in any package gives "error: cannot find input file: \WINDOWS\oracle.ini" error In-Reply-To: <20040922044221.7396.qmail@mail.tsm32.com> Message-ID: References: <20040922044221 DOT 7396 DOT qmail AT mail DOT tsm32 DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Mark Aufflick wrote: > ./configure in any package gives "error: cannot find input file: \WINDOWS\oracle.ini" error > > well, a number that i have tried anyway. I have a fresh cygwin install (a > fwe days ago) and it happens whether I have all the autoconf/automake > packages installed or not. > > I also couldn't rebuild the configure files due variously to problems > with the freetype m4 include or the configure.in in the package being > too old. > > I have not been able to find anything by googling for: cygwin oracle.ini > > Oh, and I don't have any oracle driver installed on windows or cygwin > > If I hack the configure to avoid the part that generates this error, it > completes but generates no Makefile > > > help! I really want to compile and install imlib/sawfish!! Please review and follow > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html particularly the bit about attaching (as an uncompressed text attachment) the output of "cygcheck -svr" on your machine. At a guess, something you installed earlier created an environment variable with a name that either configure or something called by configure uses. You could try simply "env | grep oracle.ini". 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/