Hallo again!

I wrote to Sigbjorn F. because he also responded to a question concerning the
building of ghjc-4.08 under WinNT and he replied that he is no longer involved
and I should send a Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] So that's it now:

>After seting the MAKE_MODE variable I rerun configure and make boot and now it
looks like I do need autoconf even if I want do build from a source
>distribution, because I get an error:
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------
>==fptool== make boot --unix --no-print-directory -r;
 >in /Haskell/fptools/ghc/rts
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------
>if [ ! -f gmp/configure ] ; then (cd gmp && autoconf ); fi;
>/bin/sh: autoconf: command not found
>make[2]: *** [boot] Error 127
>make[1]: *** [boot] Error 1
>make: *** [boot] Error 1
>
>If this is the case because of a missing autoconf then the building guide
should in the Win32 section mention that you need autoconf eveb if you use a
>source distribution.

I had not set the other variables mentioned in the "User Manual" properly at
that time simply because I didn't know I had to read it before installing. So
it might be that it works without autoconf if everything is set propoerly. But
first I can not try it because I installed autoconf to process further on, and
second I don't think that any of the missing variables should influence cygwin
in a way that it can not find autoconf.

So maybe someone can try if autoconf is realy needed.

Thanks,
Andreas

PS: I just remember that my FreeBSD machine has an WinNT to that also has
cygwinb20 installed and no autoconf as far as I know. So I can try it if you
want, but it will take a few days because I have to get a working profiling
first.

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