[Mingw-users] Error on make

[Patrick M. <pat...@gm...>]

Greetings,

I installed MinGW and MSYS this afternoon so I can build some Python
extensions.  I followed this instructions and order from the wiki:
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS.  I used msys.bat as the shell to untar
the updates to autoconf, automake, and libtool.  However the
instruction to "install" them is a little vague, so I might not have
put them in the correct location.

This afternoon I ran across an issue while trying to build geos-2.2.3.
 After running make I get the following error:

autom4te: cannot do autom4te.cache/requests:
 at /usr/bin/autom4te line 1169
autoheader: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
make[2]: *** [config.h.in] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

I ran the following:  ./configure --prefix=$HOME --disable-share
I then ran: make
I've attached the output from the commands as well.

This is on a Windows Vista machine.

I did try searching the email archives, however the sourceforge server
was being incredibly slow processing the search and was timing out.  I
apologize in advance if this is a simple fix that has been discussed
before.

-Patrick Marsh