Re: [Mingw-msys] Problems building MingwPORT automake

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Edward Diener <eldiener@...> writes:

> 
> After installing MSYS, the MSYS development kit and its own autoconf, 
> automake, libtool, bison, and m4 packages I was able to build the Mingw 
> autoconf 2.59 successfully. However when I tried to build the Mingw 
> automake 1.95 I received the message:
> 
> "checking whether autoconf works ... no"
> 
> and subsequent failure. Any ideas why this is happening ?

It's because the autotools are the exception to the rule of "configure using
prefix=`cd /unix/style/prefix && pwd -W`. 

They are exceptions because they're just scripts: perl scripts and m4 scripts. 
However, both perl.exe and m4.exe are msys programs, not native programs. 
Therefore, perl/m4 expect that the scripts they execute will have
unix(msys)-style paths, not native windows paths.

Now, I've had better success installing the autoconf/automake/libtool
*mingwPORTs* into /usr/local (or /mingw) and using those versions instead of the
ones in /bin that come with MsysDTK.  However, even then I still need to fixup
the installed script files.

I don't know if you can just use my fixit recipe (or the patch) on the MsysDTK
files in /bin -- but it works fine with mingwPORTs installed into /usr/local/.

Here's my fix-it recipe ( and patch, uue encoded ) but if you use the "normal"
mingwPORTs, they install into /mingw/, not /usr/local/.

## edit /usr/local/bin/autoconf
##   around line 158, change
##   : ${AUTOM4TE='C:/msys/1.0/local/bin/autom4te'}
##   to
##   : ${AUTOM4TE='/usr/local/bin/autom4te'}
## also need to do similar operations here:
##   /usr/local/bin/autoheader  (lines 32, 54)
##   /usr/local/bin/autom4te    (lines 29, 49)
##   /usr/local/bin/autoreconf  (lines 32, 107, 108)
##   /usr/local/bin/autoscan    (lines 29, 95, 98)
##   /usr/local/bin/autoupdate  (lines 30, 50, 54)
##   /usr/local/bin/ifnames     (line  36)
##   /usr/local/share/autoconf/autom4te.cfg (172, 200, 214, 226)
##
## or, just apply the 'autoconf-afterpatch'

I needed to employ a similar procedure for automake.

--
Chuck

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