Most likely ./configure & make doesn't work is: for many of the packages the patch(es) the prep step applies includes diffs for the configure and make files also, to account for cygwin specific switches, paths, environment vars, etc. While you can apply a patch manually, and then try configure, cygport also does the default dir creation and other sanity checks.
Also, the autoconf wrapper script needs to be updated (to autoconf-6-1) when trying to use autoconf-2.63, but it isn't a dependancy in setup.hint so is easy enough to skip. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:58:45 -0000 From: "John Emmas" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Cygwin-ports-general] Jack source code To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <003c01c96047$326f4fb0$4001a...@mycomputer> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Emmas" Sent: 15 December 2008 10:41 Subject: Re: [Cygwin-ports-general] Jack source code > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jon TURNEY" > Subject: Re: [Cygwin-ports-general] Jack source code >> >> I suggest you try: >> >> $ cygport jack-audio-connection-kit-0.109.2-1.cygport prep >> $ cygport jack-audio-connection-kit-0.109.2-1.cygport compile >> $ cygport jack-audio-connection-kit-0.109.2-1.cygport install >> $ cygport jack-audio-connection-kit-0.109.2-1.cygport package >> > I've got a problem at the compile stage because it tells me that > autoconf-2.5 is needed. My /bin/ folder seems to have both autoconf-2.13 > and autoconf-2.63. Do I need to uninstall them and install 2.5? > This seems to have been solved by uninstalling autoconf-2.13 and 2.63 and re-installing autoconf-2.5 (which gave me 2.61). I haven't dared to try the install stage yet (I usually back up my hard drive before doing installations) but at least the compile stage went fine. I'm still curious to know why "./configure" and "make" didn't work. Are they not the correct ways to build a Cygwin app? I've hardly ever built anything for Cygwin from source (except for my own projects) so I want to make sure that in future, I use the recommended procedures. Thanks, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
