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




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