Re: can't use m4-1.4.3 to build autoconf-2.59 in Mingw32

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On 28 Aug 2005, at 03:16, haibin zhang wrote:
>     I can't use m4-1.4.3 to build autoconf-2.59 in
> mingw32 and also I can't use m4-1.4.3 to build other
> projects. but I can use m4-1.4.exe which provide by
> mingw32 to build all projects.
> I use autoconf-2.59 ,automake-1.9.6 and libtool-1.5.18

Why not just run ./configure as shipped?

> I use following steps to create configure file:
> libtoolize -c --force --automake
> aclocal
> autoheader
> autoconf
> automake -a -c

autoreconf -fvi will do a better job.

> The following lines is error information:
> /usr/share/aclocal/autoopts.m4:22: warning:
> underquoted definition of AG_PATH_AUTOOPTS

Your /usr/share/aclocal/autoopts.m4 was written for an earlier
version of autoconf.  Either update it or delete it.

> autoheader: error: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS not found in
> configure.ac
> configure.ac: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> was found.
> configure.ac: You should verify that configure.ac
> invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
> configure.ac: that aclocal.m4 is present in the
> top-level directory,
> configure.ac: and that aclocal.m4 was recently
> regenerated (using aclocal).
> automake: no `Makefile.am' found for any configure
> output
> automake: Did you forget AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
> in configure.ac?

In any case, bootstrapping in mingw is not well supported.
You will probably get further if you bootstrap in cygwin,
and then run ./configure from mingw.

HTH,
    Gary.
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