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 Message-ID: <42B24541.C9E4B714@dessent.net> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:36:33 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem compiling Setup but unsure if my install is hosed or is it the source or autoconf/automake References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Report: -5.8/5.0 ---- Start SpamAssassin results * -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts * -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list ---- End SpamAssassin results X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Brian Keener wrote: > $ cd /usr/develop/src/cygwin-apps/setup > /usr/develop/src/cygwin-apps/setup > $ ./bootstrap.sh > Running bootstrap.sh in libgetopt++ > unknown channel $-5 at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Channels.pm line 538 > Autom4te::Channels::msg('$-5', 'configure.in:14', 'warning: $-6') called > at /usr/bin/autom4te-2.5x line 1008 > aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 > aclocal failed > Autotool bootstrapping failed. You will need to investigate and correct > before you can develop on this source tree I just checked with a fresh CVS checkout of the setup sources and the bootstrap went fine. I don't really know what that error message means, so I can't really be of any help there. You should probably ask on the autoconf list, where they will be able to aid you in debugging it further. Make sure to give them as many details as possible. When you have disk corruption any file is potentially a suspect for being damanged, so it could be a broken configuration file, possibly something completely unrelated to Cygwin. Normally when you reinstall a package your local config files are not replaced (particularly if they have been modified) so you might consider reinstalling. One trick that you can use to see if it's a Cygwin installation problem is: 1. save your mounts (mount -m > mounts.bat) 2. unmount everything (umount -A) 3. rename your cygwin directory to something else 4. reinstall from setup.exe This will for all intents and purposes shield your previous install, and simulate a fresh install. If you find the fresh install works, then you can copy over the parts you want to keep from the old. If it fails in the same manner you will know that it's not a Cygwin installation problem and you can revert back to the old install (by doing the steps in reverse) without losing anything. Brian -- 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/