Re: [Mingw-users] autoconf

[Tripp <el...@ya...>]

--- Keith Marshall <kei...@us...> wrote:

> On Monday 28 April 2008 21:28, Tripp wrote:
> > > > trying to get a more recent autoconf.
> > > > but nothing doing.
> > >
> > > IIRC an environment variable M4=m4 might help.
> 
> I've never found this to be necessary, myself...

yeah it detects the path,
not had a problem with that.

> > thanks,
> > i re-tried the msys m4 binary i had and it worked,
> 
> Yes, if you try to replace the MSYS build of m4 with a native build, 
> then you are in trouble.

well i think,
it didn't make a difference with 2.60 and 2.61.
1.4.11 or msys 1.4.7
on make they enter an eternal loop. but the files are created.
just needed to move them to the right place.

> from the old msysDTK-1.0.1 to the m4-1.4.7-MSYS.tar.bz2 release[1].
> All that was required was a
> 
>   $ configure && make && make install

not for me.
in fact nothing seems to be as simple on compilation.

> Or, if you don't want to be bothered building it yourself, why not
> just 
> use Chuck's ready made installation kit, for the MSYS-1.0.11
> technical 
> preview, (in the supplementary programs category); read his release 
> notes for installation instructions.

.... 
i couldn't be bothered!
didn't know there was a ready build.

> If you want to try autoconf-2.62, (I haven't gotten around to this
> yet), 
> then you will need to build it yourself.  The `autom4te: freezing 
> produced output' error, which you report, is a sure sign that you are
> using a native m4 build, rather than the MSYS version; (this also 
> affects building of autoconf-2.60/61); there has been a recent 
> discussion of this very problem, on aut...@gn...
 
yeah,
i needed both the patch to autom4te.in,
and the msys m4 binary i found.
funny thing is that i have 2 build enviroments,
one stemming from a tdragon 4.2.3 mingw build,
and one from a Tiesi 4.2.3 build.
with the tdragon enviroment,
replacing m4 with the msys binary still doesn;t work!!
with the tiesi enviroment it works,
but no, install doesn't work:
$ make install
Makefile:678: warning: overriding commands for target `install'
Makefile:574: warning: ignoring old commands for target `install'
/bin/sh /c/test/autoconf/build-aux/missing --run makeinfo --no-headers
--no-validate --no-split  -o install \
          ./doc/install.texi


thanks for the detailed response,
tripp




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