Re: [Mingw-users] Error on make

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

Greetings,

Thanks for the quick response.  I removed the directory and still had
more issues, however this time the errors were more helpful and led me
to the true source of the problem...my path was finding older versions
of autoconf, m4, etc.  Once I switched the order of directory
searching to find the newer versions of these tools, it worked...sort
of.

I'm now getting a new error on make (below).  I'm not sure what the
issue is here, since the configure.in file works on a unix machine.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

cd ../.. && /bin/sh /E/svn/basemap/geos-2.2.3/missing --run autoheader
configure.in:80: error: AC_SUBST: `VERSION VERSION_MAJOR VERSION_MINOR
VERSION_PATCH INTERFACE_CURRENT INTERFACE_REVISION INTERFACE_AGE
JTS_PORT CAPI_VERSION CAPI_VERSION_MAJOR CAPI_VERSION_MINOR
CAPI_VERSION_PATCH CAPI_INTERFACE_CURRENT CAPI_INTERFACE_REVISION
CAPI_INTERFACE_AGE' is not a valid shell variable name
configure.in:80: the top level
autom4te: /bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
autoheader: '/mingw/bin/autom4te' failed with exit status: 1
make[2]: *** [config.h.in] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/E/svn/basemap/geos-2.2.3/source/headers'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/E/svn/basemap/geos-2.2.3/source'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1




-Patrick

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Ralf Wildenhues <Ral...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello Patrick,
>
> * Patrick Marsh wrote on Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:59:11PM CET:
>> 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
>
> Can you try to just remove the autom4te.cache directory and rebuild?
> It contains caches to speed up operations only, should not be
> distributed, and nothing is lost if you remove it.
>
> Could it be that this directory was part of the distribution tarball, or
> that you generated it while using an older Autoconf version?  I think
> there was one incompatible change in its files' format in the past.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
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