Re: Problem compiling Setup but unsure if my install is hosed or is it the source or autoconf/automake
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 propagated the original problem from the Win2k machine (that had experienced corruption) to my WinXP (this I believe I propogated) and a Win95 (I didn't copy the tree or anything so not usre how this propogated) or there was something in the succession of updates. At any rate I resolved the Win95 and WinXP through a full removal and reinstall of Cygwin and my build tree - just reinstalling all the packages and deleting/rebuilding my cvs build tree was insufficient. I knew I was home free when I got to the STL error as previously reported by Igor in cygwin-apps: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-06/msg00159.html on either the WinXp and the Win95 machines. So I just thought I would close this out for the archives with a final resolution. Thanks for all the help and assistance bk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: Problem compiling Setup but unsure if my install is hosed or is it the source or autoconf/automake
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 that is it.
The best thing I can suggest is ask on the autoconf list. Your error
seems like an internal problem with aclocal or autoconf, and they should
be able to help.
I'm no expert on all that auto-* malarkey, but I notice one thing:
$ ./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: $-6')
called
at /usr/bin/autom4te-2.5x line 1008
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
aclocal failed
Autotool bootstrapping failed. You will need to investigate and correct
before you can develop on this source tree
I don't even _have_ a /usr/share/autoconf directory on my installation,
and bootstrap.sh WJFFM. Perhaps there is some residual bogosity lurking in
there from old versions?
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?
cheers,
DaveK
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Re: Problem compiling Setup but unsure if my install is hosed or is it the source or autoconf/automake
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 {devel,stable} notion as well as the
home grown wrapper scripts. The change was announced at
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-05/msg00322.html but I don't
ever remember seeing an actual [ANNOUNCEMENT} message for the new
packages.
Brian
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RE: Problem compiling Setup but unsure if my install is hosed or is it the source or autoconf/automake
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' versions of autotools then apparently.
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
The
'new' versions do away with the {devel,stable} notion as well as the
home grown wrapper scripts. The change was announced at
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-05/msg00322.html
Yeh, I do remember seeing that, now you remind me.
but I don't
ever remember seeing an actual [ANNOUNCEMENT} message for the new
packages.
cheers,
DaveK
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Re: Problem compiling Setup but unsure if my install is hosed or is it the source or autoconf/automake
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 other autotool-related issues. The problem seems to be with something gone awry in the OP's system. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Problem compiling Setup but unsure if my install is hosed or is it the source or autoconf/automake
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 some malfunction that
apparently resulted in some FAT corruption. I had to delete a file to even get
the ChkDsk to complete and it found many bad links in files and cross links ad
whatever. Basically ended up loosing bits and pieces of several days. Several
things were affected in my Cygwin environment as well (some of my CVS for Setup
and Cygwin and so on). My CVS on Setup was hosed pretty badly to the point I
deleted it all and checked it out again from CVS.
Currently I am at the point where I can compile the Cygwin Dll and have several
times just for assurance but I cannot get the bootstrap.sh to run in Setup. I
reinstalled all the Autoconf and automake and then reinstalled m4 and then
uninstalled them and reinstalled them and finally today I reinstalled all of
the packages I have installed and tried again to run bootstrap.sh - I still get
the following error:
~
$ 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: $-6') called
at /usr/bin/autom4te-2.5x line 1008
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
aclocal failed
Autotool bootstrapping failed. You will need to investigate and correct
before you can develop on this source tree
Continuing with bootstrap in current directory
unknown channel $-5 at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Channels.pm line 538
Autom4te::Channels::msg('$-5', 'configure.in:32', 'warning: $-6') called
at /usr/bin/autom4te-2.5x line 1008
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
aclocal failed
Autotool bootstrapping failed. You will need to investigate and correct
before you can develop on this source tree
/usr/develop/src/cygwin-apps/setup
$
I'm at a loss as to what else could be affecting this. Short of removing
Cygwin completely and doing a fresh install - I'm at a loss. As of this
writing even that has been accomplished since I have now installed cygwin on a
new Windows XP laptop and reinstalled my cygwin and setup cvs copies. I can
still build cygwin - but same error above on setup.
Any ideas - has anyone else run into this or been able to compile setup in the
last few days. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
bk
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Re: Problem compiling Setup but unsure if my install is hosed or is it the source or autoconf/automake
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: $-6')
called
at /usr/bin/autom4te-2.5x line 1008
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
aclocal failed
Autotool bootstrapping failed. You will need to investigate and correct
before you can develop on this source tree
I just checked with a fresh CVS checkout of the setup sources and the
bootstrap went fine. I don't really know what that error message means,
so I can't really be of any help there. You should probably ask on the
autoconf list, where they will be able to aid you in debugging it
further. Make sure to give them as many details as possible.
When you have disk corruption any file is potentially a suspect for
being damanged, so it could be a broken configuration file, possibly
something completely unrelated to Cygwin. Normally when you reinstall a
package your local config files are not replaced (particularly if they
have been modified) so you might consider reinstalling. One trick that
you can use to see if it's a Cygwin installation problem is:
1. save your mounts (mount -m mounts.bat)
2. unmount everything (umount -A)
3. rename your cygwin directory to something else
4. reinstall from setup.exe
This will for all intents and purposes shield your previous install, and
simulate a fresh install. If you find the fresh install works, then you
can copy over the parts you want to keep from the old. If it fails in
the same manner you will know that it's not a Cygwin installation
problem and you can revert back to the old install (by doing the steps
in reverse) without losing anything.
Brian
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Re: Problem compiling Setup but unsure if my install is hosed or is it the source or autoconf/automake
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 error I blew away the setup cvs tree and checked it out again. And the compile still failed. Obviously there something wrong with higher on my CVS tree (I guess). 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'll blow away my CVS tree and recheck everything out and see what that does. As I say the rest of my install on the XP machine is all fresh. Thanks bk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Problem compiling Setup but unsure if my install is hosed or is it the source or autoconf/automake
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 'auto(conf|make)|libtool' autoconf2.59-2 OK autoconf2.1 2.13-1 OK autoconf2.5 2.59-1 OK automake1.7.9-2 OK automake1.4 1.4p6-1 OK automake1.6 1.6.3-1 OK automake1.7 1.7.9-1 OK automake1.8 1.8.5-1 OK automake1.9 1.9.5-1 OK libtool1.5 1.5.18-1 OK The best thing I can suggest is ask on the autoconf list. Your error seems like an internal problem with aclocal or autoconf, and they should be able to help. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
