Just a follow up on this:
I finally resolved this and as everyone knew/suspected it was not an
autoconf/automake issue or at least I don't think it was unless there was
something missed in update to update to update. I actually had the same
autom4te error on 3 machines of which I either
Original Message
From: Brian Dessent
Sent: 17 June 2005 06:42
Brian Keener wrote:
The only other thing I can think of is what version of autoconf and
automake and libtool are you using. Mine are the versions that were
released when stable and devel became obsolete. But not sure
Dave Korn wrote:
I don't have any /usr/bin/autom4te-2.5x either. My Channels.pm lives
under /usr/autotool/{devel,stable}/share/Autom4te.
Sounds like you have some stray stuff going on?
You're still on the 'old' versions of autotools then apparently. The
'new' versions do away with the
Original Message
From: Brian Dessent
Sent: 17 June 2005 11:12
Dave Korn wrote:
I don't have any /usr/bin/autom4te-2.5x either. My Channels.pm lives
under /usr/autotool/{devel,stable}/share/Autom4te.
Sounds like you have some stray stuff going on?
You're still on the 'old'
Dave Korn wrote:
Guess I am, at that. And from the looks of things, I'm staying that way
for at least a little while longer. I need to be able to build setup! g
(From the 'knew you were joking, but:' department...)
I am using the new packages and had no problem running bootstrap.sh or
any
I debated asking this but I am now at a loss as to where to look next. I had a
nice working Cygwin system and could compile my own copies of the Cygwin.dll
and more for my purposes a copy of Setup.exe. I am using Win2k and have kept
my system up to date. Last Friday my system experienced
Brian Keener wrote:
$ cd /usr/develop/src/cygwin-apps/setup
/usr/develop/src/cygwin-apps/setup
$ ./bootstrap.sh
Running bootstrap.sh in libgetopt++
unknown channel $-5 at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Channels.pm line 538
Autom4te::Channels::msg('$-5', 'configure.in:14', 'warning:
Thanks Brian for the follow up and the suggestion. As I mentioned I did just
do a clean install of cygwin and all apps to a Windows XP laptop but like a
dummy and lazy person I copied my cvs tree from the Win2k laptop. Then when I
tried to compile on the WinXP machine and I still got the
Brian Keener wrote:
The only other thing I can think of is what version of autoconf and automake
and libtool are you using. Mine are the versions that were released when
stable and devel became obsolete. But not sure that is it.
I too use the 'new' autotools:
$ cygcheck -c|grep -P
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