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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050723200612.03df2670@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:08:29 -0400 To: Stephen & Linda Smith , Cygwin List From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: autoconf problem on cygwin In-Reply-To: <1122069661.25819.11.camel@thunderbird> References: <1122067040 DOT 25819 DOT 9 DOT camel AT thunderbird> <6 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 20050722174046 DOT 0574dae8 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> <1122069661 DOT 25819 DOT 11 DOT camel AT thunderbird> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 06:01 PM 7/22/2005, you wrote: >On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 17:41 -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >> At 05:17 PM 7/22/2005, you wrote: >> >I was asked by some coworkers to investigate upgrading out internal >> >cygwin distribution to the lastest distribution. So this morning I >> >downloaded the latest cygwin and installed it on a windows XP box. >> > >> >One of the first things I tried doing was to run aclocal and I recieved >> >this error message. >> > >> >/development $ aclocal >> >/usr/share/aclocal/libsmi.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_LIBSMI >> > run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' >> > or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal >> >/usr/share/aclocal/freetype2.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of AC_CHECK_FT2 >> >/usr/share/aclocal/cppunit.m4:4: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_CPPUNIT >> >ac-wrapper: /usr/bin/autom4te-2.13 is missing or not executable. >> > Something is very wrong. >> > >> >Here are the versions that cygcheck -s spits out: >> > >> >autoconf 2.59-2 >> >autoconf2.1 2.13-1 >> >autoconf2.5 2.59-1 >> >automake1.4 1.4p6-2 >> >automake1.6 1.6.3-2 >> >automake1.7 1.7.9-2 >> >automake1.8 1.8.5-2 >> >automake1.9 1.9.5-2 >> > >> >What should I do to fix this problem. >> >> >> This seems relevant, given that it's the same error: >> >> >> >So given the data I had, how would I know to set >"/usr/sbin/alternatives --set automake /usr/bin/automake-1.4" >rather than some other version. Is this a question? Is it rhetorical? If not, I would say that searching the email archives is always a good way to find out if others have seen a problem you're having. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/