On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:44:58PM +0000, Marco Atzeri wrote: >--- Mer 10/2/10, Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: > >> On Feb? 9 19:59, Marco Atzeri >> wrote: >> > --- Mar 9/2/10, Marco Atzeri ha scritto: >> > >> > > Hi, >> > > working on the last octave development source, >> > > recently I bumped on: >> > > >> > > $ aclocal --force -I m4 >> > > unknown channel obsolete. at >> > > /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Channels.pm line >> 632 >> > > ? ? ? ? >> > > Autom4te::Channels::msg('obsolete.', >> 'configure.ac:262', >> > > 'warning: The macro `AC_GNU_SOURCE\' is >> obsolete.\x{a}You >> > > should r...') called at /usr/bin/autom4te-2.65 >> line 1039 >> > > aclocal-1.11: autom4te failed with exit status: >> 1 >> > > >> > > >> > > Have anyone the same problem with other packages >> ? >> > > It seems more a aclocal fault than a octave >> specific >> > > issue. >> > > >> > > >> > > Regards >> > > Marco >> > > >> > >> > I just discovered that the problem happens with >> > cygwin snapshot 2010-02-07 but not with 1.7.1. >> > >> > Any idea what could cause it ? >> >> No, but it might help to isolate the cause if you verify >> with which >> snapshot the problem actually started. > >2010-02-05 is the first to show such problem. >2010-02-04 works as expected
That would point to a newlib change since the only cygwin change is very trivial. >snapshot 2010-02-10 seems to have a problem with perl. > >perl 3192 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: In cygwin_except_handler >so aclocal can not work at all. That one is my fault. I have a vague understanding of what is causing the problem but I probably won't be able to fix it tonight. I should have it fixed tomorrow, however. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple