Frank Olaf > > It doesn't seem like SimGear has its own mailing list, so I'll post my > compiling problems here. I am attempting to cross compile flightgear in > Cygwin for a mingw/Windows host, but the problem I'm both report also > appears with just a normal configuration with only the prefix variable > set. > ./autogen.sh works fine, but running configure terminates with an error > message when it is about to create the configurations, i.e. when it is > about to run config.status. It spits out the following error: > $ ./configure --prefix=/fg > .... > .... > .... > checking for getrusage... yes > configure: creating ./config.status > config.status: creating \ > .infig.status: error: cannot find input file: \ > > The weird formatting of the bottom line is caused by the\being followed > by some other ascii character which affects the formatting of the > beginning of the next line. This is more clear in this cut-out from > config.log: > ## ---------------------- ## > ## Running config.status. ## > ## ---------------------- ## > > This file was extended by config.status, which was > generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59. Invocation command line was > > CONFIG_FILES = > CONFIG_HEADERS = > CONFIG_LINKS = > CONFIG_COMMANDS = > $ ./config.status > > on stereos > > config.status:788: creating \(square box) > config.status:848: error: cannot find input file: \(square box).in > > I have included unable to find where the \ comes from, nor the square > box. Searching for \ in config.status is rather futile because of all > the regular expressions :) > Has anyone got any suggestions? If needed I can include config.status > and config.log, but I thought I'd wait and see if it was really necessary. >
I've had that error compiling under Cygwin. The cause was using WinCVS to update the file config.ac. The cure was to delete that file and re-download it using the Cygwin command line CVS - cvs up -dPAC. You may have done something similar. Vivian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
