On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 02:38:19AM +0000, Lee via Cygwin-apps wrote: > I'd like to update the orphaned mingw64-i686-pcre package. > > The download and prep steps work but compile dies & I don't know why: > > >>> Preparing mingw64-i686-pcre-8.44-1.noarch > *** Info: SOURCE 1 signature follows: > gpg: Signature made Wed Feb 12 12:36:22 2020 EST > gpg: using RSA key 0x9766E084FB0F43D8 > gpg: Good signature from "Philip Hazel <p...@hermes.cam.ac.uk>" > gpg: aka "Philip Hazel <p...@cam.ac.uk>" > gpg: aka "Philip Hazel <p...@cus.cam.ac.uk>" > gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! > gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. > Primary key fingerprint: 45F6 8D54 BBE2 3FB3 039B 46E5 9766 E084 FB0F 43D8 > >>> Unpacking source pcre-8.44.tar.gz > >>> Preparing working source directory > >>> Compiling mingw64-i686-pcre-8.44-1.noarch > autoreconf-2.69: Entering directory `.' > autoreconf-2.69: configure.ac: not using Gettext > autoreconf-2.69: running: aclocal --force -I m4 > autoreconf-2.69: configure.ac: tracing > autoreconf-2.69: running: libtoolize --copy --force > libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'. > libtoolize: error: copying '/usr/share/libtool/build-aux/ltmain.sh' > to './' failed > libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'. > libtoolize: error: copying '/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to 'm4/' failed > libtoolize: error: copying '/usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4' to 'm4/' failed > libtoolize: error: copying '/usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4' to 'm4/' failed > libtoolize: error: copying '/usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4' to 'm4/' failed > libtoolize: error: copying '/usr/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4' to 'm4/' > failed > autoreconf-2.69: libtoolize failed with exit status: 1 > *** ERROR: autoreconf failed > > > Hopefully I just need to install something else, but what?
These are the usual suspects: autoconf automake libtool m4 pkg-config Do you have them installed? Cheers, Glenn