[Lame-dev] Configure/autoconf problem on Cygwin

[<lem...@t-...>]

Sorry if the following will be a dupliacte.  I posted via gmane to a  
rather old thread and do see it appear in the archives at sourceforge.   
Anyway, here it is:

From: Michael <lemkemch <at> t-online.de>
Subject: Re: en error message in conf
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.audio.mp3.lame
Date: 2008-08-10 21:39:00 GMT (23 hours and 1 minute ago)
Alexander Leidinger <Alexander <at> Leidinger.net> writes:

>Quoting "Gosha Osipov" <gaosipov <at> gmail.com> (Tue, 20 Nov 2007  
> 18:38:24
+0300):
>> I've got an error message, after running ./configure in Cygwin.
> >> Message:
> > checking for uint64_t... yes
> > checking for int64_t... yes
> > configure: error: CHECK_TYPE_uint32_t - please report to lame-dev <at>  
> lists.sourcefo
> > rge.net
> >> Generated by this source code:
> > ----------------------
> > 		if test "${ac_cv_sizeof_unsigned_long}" = "4"; then
> > 			cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
> > #define A_UINT32_T unsigned long
> > _ACEOF
> >> 		else
> > 			{ { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: CHECK_TYPE_uint32_t - please
> > report to lame-dev <at> lists.sourceforge.net" >&5
> > echo "$as_me: error: CHECK_TYPE_uint32_t - please report to
> > lame-dev <at> lists.sourceforge.net" >&2;}
> >    { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
> > 		fi
> > -----------------------
> > sizeof(unsigned long) seemed to be 8, and it don't contradict Standard
>But 8 is too much for a 32bit integer type. Please send me the
> configure output regarding the "checking size of " lines.

For a solution see here:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00308.html
and especially
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00312.html
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=78dc34

Could I ask the maintainers to upgrade their autoconf to at least 2.62 to  
make
this go away?

As a quick workaround for other cygwin users: make sure your lame build
directory is on a binary mount.

Michael