On Aug 20 22:03, Tim Prince wrote: > noPartition wrote: >> hi everyone , I'm new to the forum , please don't rank me out :) >> I'm having trouble with part of the GNU toolchain , specifically >> 'configure' . I've installed the relevant packages , ie diffutils , but I >> still get the error titling this message . > Most gnu packages come with their own configure script, and, if there's > anything out of the ordinary, their own build instructions. > If you are following the usual procedure, you run configure in an empty > directory, so you must designate the path to the appropriate configure > script.
Or, unbelievable as it may be, there is no configure script yet, just a configure.in or configure.ac script. That's what autoconf is for. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
