Re: Repost: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS problem

[David Snopek]

Akim Demaille wrote:
> | And the subdir configure is called with:
> | 
> | ./configure --host=i686-mingw32msvc host_alias=i686-mingw32msvc
> | --target=i386-mingw32msvc target_alias=i386-mingw32msvc
> | --build=i386-linux build_alias=i386-linux
> | 
> | 
> | This causes the subdir configure to fail because it interprets the
> | "host_alias=...", "targer_alias=...", and "build_alias=..." as host
> | types.  Like I said in my last two letters, I believe this is a bug,
> | but I don't know...
>
> I don't think it is a bug in the sense that it was meant to help the
> transition from 2.13 to 2.50, because it the meanwhile the definitions
> of build, host, and target have been clarified.

I have found the solution to the problem!!  It actually has more to do 
with libtool than it does with autoconf, but it will only affect users 
who upgrade to autoconf 2.5x.  The subdir configure I had was a part of 
the libtool helper-library libltdl.  I installed it as part of my 
package using "libtoolize --ltdl".  I didn't realize until just now, 
that libltdl's configure script was generated using autoconf 2.13.  I 
re-generated the libltdl configure with autoconf 2.52 and now everything 
 works.  Thanks for the help!  If anyone else has this same problem in 
the future, you'll know what to tell them!
        -- David Snopek

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