Re: already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES

[Tim Van Holder]

Mailing Lists wrote:
> Thanks Tim.
>
> However, I don't really know what to do with the above error message, and what
> the next debugging step could/should be.

You could try using a different Perl (e.g. the ActiveState one instead
of the Cygwin one).  Or you could just try turning the configure.ac
into Unix text; several editors, such as emacs or UltraEdit, allow you 
to do that easily, or you could run
  $ cp configure.ac configure.ac.bak
  $ tr -d '\r' <configure.ac.bak >configure.ac
which should throw away all carriage returns.

> P.S.: How can I set the "cygwin mount point to text mode"?

By using the 'mount' command.  If you run mount without arguments you
will get a list of the mount points, for example

c: on /xxx/e type user (binmode,noumount)
e: on /xxx/e type user (binmode,noumount)
f: on /xxx/f type user (binmode,noumount)
z: on /xxx/z type user (binmode,noumount)

where xxx is the cygdrive prefix ('cygdrive' by default, but
user-definable).
Using 'mount -f -t y: /xxx/y' for the drive that holds the sources will
set that mount point to text mode, which may help.  Afterwards, run
'umount /xxx/y' to restore the standard mount point.

All this falls outside the scope of autmake though - you should probably
contact the cygwin mailing list for further assistance.