Eric Blake wrote: > According to Tim Prince on 12/23/2008 6:50 AM: >> After installing automake, it is necessary to over-write autoconf with >> autoconf 2.59 which is easily built from source, as gcc build requires >> that specific version. > > The distro comes with a version of autoconf 2.59, and you can use the > alternatives package to make it your primary version. Also, the normal > autoconf installed by the distro is a wrapper script, which honors various > environment variables to forward to the desired autoconf version on a > per-package basis.
You're thinking of automake, not autoconf. Automake ships every version from 1.4 to 1.10, and has an alternatives wrapper to let you select a default as well as a script to ensure the same version is picked to regenerate any Makefile.in as was previously used. Autoconf ships only one version each of 2.1 and 2.5 series, currently 2.13-5 and 2.63-1, and has a wrapper script, but it only helps hide the differences in version number within a series. You can specify WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5 and it will select whichever one of 2.59 to 2.63 you have installed, but you only have one of those installed. > So you don't have to build autoconf 2.59 from scratch > to build gcc. No, you really do need it, either by rolling back your install, maybe using the Cygwin Time Machine, or by building it from source. See also: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-01/msg00000.html cheers, DaveK -- 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/
