Re: Installing Autoconf 2.63 on MinGW

2008-12-08 Thread Keith Marshall
On Sunday 07 December 2008 20:35:05 Brian Dessent wrote: > Jason Curl wrote: Jason, Your question has already been asked, and answered, several times recently, on the MinGW and MSYS mailing lists; you would do well to search their archives, e.g.: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.use

Re: Installing Autoconf 2.63 on MinGW

2008-12-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jason Curl on 12/7/2008 12:27 PM: > Hello, > > I've just downloaded mingw-1.0.11, installed m4-1.4.12 and ActivePerl > 5.10.0. When I run configure it succeeds, but building autoconf fails > complaining about needing GNU m4 1.4 or later.

Re: Installing Autoconf 2.63 on MinGW

2008-12-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Jason Curl wrote: > I've just downloaded mingw-1.0.11, installed m4-1.4.12 and ActivePerl > 5.10.0. When I run configure it succeeds, but building autoconf fails > complaining about needing GNU m4 1.4 or later. Activestate? That's most likely your problem. AS Perl can't cope with POSIX path tra