Thanks Tim.
However, I don't really know what to do with the above error message, and what the next debugging step could/should be.
You could try using a different Perl (e.g. the ActiveState one instead
of the Cygwin one). Or you could just try turning the configure.ac
into Unix text; several editors, such as emacs or UltraEdit, allow you to do that easily, or you could run
$ cp configure.ac configure.ac.bak
$ tr -d '\r' <configure.ac.bak >configure.ac
which should throw away all carriage returns.
P.S.: How can I set the "cygwin mount point to text mode"?
By using the 'mount' command. If you run mount without arguments you will get a list of the mount points, for example
c: on /xxx/e type user (binmode,noumount) e: on /xxx/e type user (binmode,noumount) f: on /xxx/f type user (binmode,noumount) z: on /xxx/z type user (binmode,noumount)
where xxx is the cygdrive prefix ('cygdrive' by default, but
user-definable).
Using 'mount -f -t y: /xxx/y' for the drive that holds the sources will
set that mount point to text mode, which may help. Afterwards, run
'umount /xxx/y' to restore the standard mount point.All this falls outside the scope of autmake though - you should probably contact the cygwin mailing list for further assistance.
