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Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 10:37:48 -0800
From: Brad Bell <bradbell AT seanet DOT com>
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To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Problem using cygwin autoconf
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> Brad Bell wrote:
>
>> Recently (today) I installed the current version of Cygwin from
>>    mirrors.kernel.org
>> Now I am having trouble using the autoconf and automake tools under 
>> cygwin.
>> To be specific, In response to the command
>>    autoconf
>> I get the error message
>>    Can't locate object method "path" via package "Request" at
>>    /usr/autotool/devel/share/autoconf/Autom4te/C4che.pm
>>    line 69, <GEN1> line 214.
>> I get a similar error message in response to the aclocal and 
>> autoheader commands.
>>
>> Do you have any suggestions as to how I should proceed to resolve 
>> this problem ?
>>
I found the solution to this problem on the web page
    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-06/msg00047.html

To be specific, in my case I had to delete the file
    autom4te.cache

It appears that the autoconf and automake tools use files of the form 
'*.cache'
that are stored in the users directories. When a new versions of these tools
are installed, the '*.cache' files corresponding to the old versions 
should be deleted.
These are not automatically deleted when the old versions are uninstalled,
because they are in the users directory.

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