Re: [q-lang-users] CVS head doesn't build under Cygwin

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:

> Hmm, those underquoted definition warnings should be harmless. So that
> missing config.rpath seems to be the culprit. Unfortunately I have no
> idea what that file does, my build doesn't have it and apparently
> doesn't need it. I'd guess it's something related to libtool. But then
> libtoolize should add it. Or maybe the current libtool version of Cygwin
> is broken? Did you try to run autogen.sh on older Cygwin versions before?

Googling shows that what needs to be done is to copy config.rpath
from /usr/share/gettext into the q directory, and then to add
the line AM_PROG_CC_C_O to configure.in, just after AC_PROG_LIBTOOL.

Autotools.  *sigh*   Too old, they don't work.  Too new, they don't work.

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