Re: Installing Autoconf 2.63 on MinGW

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jason Curl on 12/7/2008 12:27 PM:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just downloaded mingw-1.0.11, installed m4-1.4.12 and ActivePerl
> 5.10.0. When I run configure it succeeds, but building autoconf fails
> complaining about needing GNU m4 1.4 or later.

Thanks for the report.  This probably means that you have an issue with
carriage returns in some, but not all, of your toolchain.  The official
mingw build of autoconf and m4 have been reported to work just fine; I
suspect that if you are using self-built m4, that the problem stems from a
different setting on binary vs. text mode handling.

> autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg'        
> ../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib         --language M4sh --cache
> '' --melt ./autoconf.as -o autoconf.in
> The system cannot find the path specified.
> autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /usr/local/bin/m4

The only other thing I can think of is a difference between cygwin naming
vs. native windows file names.  Perhaps the configure script is able to
discover a file name that works for m4, but that same name, when handed
off to activeState perl can't be resolved as a valid path.

Personally, I don't do much mingw development, so I'm afraid I can't offer
much more advice.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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