[Mingw-msys] Autoconf && automake

[Jean le R. <je...@in...>]

Hi all

First off, despite the small hichups in the 1.0.6 dist, I fell I
must congratualte all those involved. It looks better, it feel better
and it does more :)

I've used msys 1.0.5 for a short while with MinGW-1.1. I did a fresh
install today of both, and found it much less complicated...
experience, perhaps, but i'd like to blame it on 1.0.6. ;>

I downloaded the latest automake & autoconf from GNU today.

I'm having problems with installing automake 1.5 though.
I started off installing autoconf-2.53. that went fine. Then i did
automake-1.6... it complained that i did not have autoconf-2.52 or
higher (after i just installed 2.53). Subsequently i moved to
automake-1.5 which did not complain.

Here is my problem though: automake complains of not being able to
find Automake/Struct.pm. one if the search dirs is
/local/share/automake, under which the desired files _is_ located.

I did a --prefix=/local, otherwise it looks in /usr/local, which i
dont have :)

Any advise on this front?

PS, both installs got stuck in loops when i did a "make install". It
repetitively installed the same files over and over again.

bye
-- 
Jean le Roux
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