With the automake, autoconf, and libtool wrapper scripts presently in cygwin, the scripts do not gracefully handle --version and --help from an empty directory (that is, a directory with no configure.in):
$ cd /tmp $ autoconf --version autoconf: no input file $ automake --version automake: Couldn't find configure.ac nor configure.in file $ libtool --version libtool: Couldn't find configure.ac nor configure.in file However, the *-devel versions work just fine in the same situation: $ /usr/autotool/devel/bin/autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.52 ... I would like to see this patched so that if any of these tools are executed but no configure.in is found, the wrapper scripts defer to the *-devel version, so that the --version and --help output is still useful instead of an error. Unfortunately, I am not a shell script programmer, so I can't offer much assistance in this matter. Also, I think it might be a good idea when --version is passed to the wrapper scripts to append a line to the output of the *-stable or *-devel to further indicate the version of the wrapper script. That way, I can recognize that the wrapper is automake 2.52 compliant even if it invoked in a directory which falls back on the automake-stable 2.13 for execution. -- This signature intentionally left boring. Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] BYU student, free software programmer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
