Re: autoconf problem on cygwin

2005-07-24 Thread Stephen & Linda Smith
Actually, checking the output of the makefile/configure would not have helped me. The reason is that I and a few of my coworkers use aclocal/autoconf in maintaining some software packages. When I upgraded Cygwin (admittedly the last Cygwin we were using is 2 years old), one of the things that I n

Re: autoconf problem on cygwin

2005-07-24 Thread Charles Wilson
Larry Hall wrote: Is this a question? Is it rhetorical? If not, I would say that searching the email archives is always a good way to find out if others have seen a problem you're having. I think what sps was saying was, how was he supposed to know that he needed to be using automake-1.4 i

Re: autoconf problem on cygwin

2005-07-23 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:01 PM 7/22/2005, you wrote: >On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 17:41 -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >> At 05:17 PM 7/22/2005, you wrote: >> >I was asked by some coworkers to investigate upgrading out internal >> >cygwin distribution to the lastest distribution. So this morning I >> >downloaded the latest cygw

Re: autoconf problem on cygwin

2005-07-22 Thread Stephen & Linda Smith
So given the data I had, how would I know to set "/usr/sbin/alternatives --set automake /usr/bin/automake-1.4" rather than some other version. sps On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 17:41 -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > At 05:17 PM 7/22/2005, you wrote: > >I was asked by some coworkers to investigate upgrading ou

Re: autoconf problem on cygwin

2005-07-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:17 PM 7/22/2005, you wrote: >I was asked by some coworkers to investigate upgrading out internal >cygwin distribution to the lastest distribution. So this morning I >downloaded the latest cygwin and installed it on a windows XP box. > >One of the first things I tried doing was to run aclocal

autoconf problem on cygwin

2005-07-22 Thread Stephen & Linda Smith
I was asked by some coworkers to investigate upgrading out internal cygwin distribution to the lastest distribution. So this morning I downloaded the latest cygwin and installed it on a windows XP box. One of the first things I tried doing was to run aclocal and I recieved this error message. /d