On Monday 29 September 2008 06:53:02 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello, > > * newthinker wrote on Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 05:50:54AM CEST: > > Hi guys, > > I get the following error here: > > cfg.mk:20: *** Recursive variable `PATH' references itself > > (eventually). Stop. > > This looks like a bug in the makefiles. > Can you please report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks.
Hi Ralf, I am not the OP, and I haven't managed to exactly reproduce this symptom, but as with every other version of autoconf I've built on MSYS, with 2.63, I am still unable to build it successfully `in place', (in the source directory), while I have no problem at all, when using a separate build directory. (Given a choice, I *never* build any package in the source directory anyway). On this occasion, the `in place' failure is particularly nasty; the `all' primary goal proceeds normally, until it attempts to satisfy the `all-am' secondary goal, at which point it starts *installing* the partially built package -- very nasty, because it wasn't asked to install anything yet, but it is identifying the `install' goal as the only candidate to satisfy the `$(srcdir)/INSTALL' prerequisite -- and, because `install' itself depends on the only partially completed `all' goal, this recurses indefinitely. Regards, Keith.
