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On 3/24/2011 20:08, David Cleaver wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have just joined a project where I will need access to autoconf and 
> autoreconf.  I am running Windows XP x64, I use Msys as my shell, and have 
> put 
> sezero's latest build at the front of the path so I can build 64-bit 
> binaries. 
> The start of my path looks like:
> $ echo $PATH
> .:/c/mingw64-20101003/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:
> 
> I ran into some problems with the following file:
> Source Forge->3rd party development tools->autotools-20100923.tar.xz
> 
> I unzipped it, and moved the contents of the bin directory to the folder:
> /c/mingw64-20101003/bin
> 
> I then tried the following:
> $ autoconf
> Cannot find autoconf-wrapper (2.68)
> $ autoreconf
> Cannot find autoconf-wrapper (2.68)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> I then copied the contents of autoconf-wrapper into autoconf and autoreconf.  
> I 
> made the following changes in those two files:
> 
> In autoconf:
> LOCATION="/c/mingw64-20101003/bin"
> #COMMAND=${0##*/}
> COMMAND="autoconf"
> 
> In autoreconf:
> LOCATION="/c/mingw64-20101003/bin"
> #COMMAND=${0##*/}
> COMMAND="autoreconf"
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Now when I run the autoconf and autoreconf on the command line I get:
> $ autoconf
> autoconf-2.68: error: no input file
> 
> $ autoreconf
> /c/mingw64-20101003/bin/autoreconf: /c/mingw64-20101003/bin/autoreconf-2.68: 
> No 
> such file or directory
> /c/mingw64-20101003/bin/autoreconf: /c/mingw64-20101003/bin/autoreconf-2.68: 
> No 
> such file or directory
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> If I just run autoconf-2.68 or autoreconf-2.68 I get:
> $ autoconf-2.68
> autoconf-2.68: error: no input file
> 
> $ autoreconf-2.68
> sh: /c/mingw64-20101003/bin/autoreconf-2.68: No such file or directory
> 
> If I try an autoreconf that isn't there I get:
> $ autoreconf-2.41
> sh: autoreconf-2.41: command not found
> 

The tarball has symlinks in them, so I don't think they'll work with
MSYS out of the box.

If possible, I suggest using Cygwin instead of MSYS if you want Unix-ish
symlinks.


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