X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19922.64949.62000.98452@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 23:59:01 +0100 From: Uday S Reddy To: Eric Blake Cc: Uday S Reddy , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: m4 1.4.16-1 doesn't seem to work In-Reply-To: <4DD2F7C1.1010205@redhat.com> References: <19921 DOT 30753 DOT 62000 DOT 974121 AT gargle DOT gargle DOT HOWL> <4DD293E4 DOT 2070407 AT redhat DOT com> <19922 DOT 61962 DOT 640000 DOT 987645 AT gargle DOT gargle DOT HOWL> <4DD2F7C1 DOT 1010205 AT redhat DOT com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Eric Blake writes: > Odd; that says all your dlls are in place. The only other thing that I > can suspect is that you have an incomplete dll, where you are missing a > required entry point (perhaps you are running too old of a > cygwin1.dll?). What is $? after the failed m4? Also, can you try > opening up a cmd window, and running m4 from there, to see if you get a > useful popup box? (running under a cygwin shell intentionally suppresses > dll link error popup boxes) Indeed, you were right to suspect the dll. Reinstalling it cured the problem. Thanks for all your help! Cheers, Uday -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple