[Mingw-w64-public] need help with autotools...

[David C. <wr...@mo...>]

Hello everyone,

I have just joined a project where I will need access to autoconf and 
autoreconf.  I am running Windows XP x64, I use Msys as my shell, and have put 
sezero's latest build at the front of the path so I can build 64-bit binaries. 
The start of my path looks like:
$ echo $PATH
.:/c/mingw64-20101003/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:

I ran into some problems with the following file:
Source Forge->3rd party development tools->autotools-20100923.tar.xz

I unzipped it, and moved the contents of the bin directory to the folder:
/c/mingw64-20101003/bin

I then tried the following:
$ autoconf
Cannot find autoconf-wrapper (2.68)
$ autoreconf
Cannot find autoconf-wrapper (2.68)

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I then copied the contents of autoconf-wrapper into autoconf and autoreconf.  I 
made the following changes in those two files:

In autoconf:
LOCATION="/c/mingw64-20101003/bin"
#COMMAND=${0##*/}
COMMAND="autoconf"

In autoreconf:
LOCATION="/c/mingw64-20101003/bin"
#COMMAND=${0##*/}
COMMAND="autoreconf"

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Now when I run the autoconf and autoreconf on the command line I get:
$ autoconf
autoconf-2.68: error: no input file

$ autoreconf
/c/mingw64-20101003/bin/autoreconf: /c/mingw64-20101003/bin/autoreconf-2.68: No 
such file or directory
/c/mingw64-20101003/bin/autoreconf: /c/mingw64-20101003/bin/autoreconf-2.68: No 
such file or directory

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If I just run autoconf-2.68 or autoreconf-2.68 I get:
$ autoconf-2.68
autoconf-2.68: error: no input file

$ autoreconf-2.68
sh: /c/mingw64-20101003/bin/autoreconf-2.68: No such file or directory

If I try an autoreconf that isn't there I get:
$ autoreconf-2.41
sh: autoreconf-2.41: command not found

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So, it looks like autoconf is working just fine, however, can anyone tell what I 
might be doing wrong with autoreconf?  If you need any more information from me, 
please let me know.

-David C.