conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-06 Thread Roberto Bagnara
Hi there, a user has troubles configuring a (autoconfiscated) library we have written. He is on a (fully up-to-date and not hacked in any way) Cygwin system and uses a configure script generated by Autoconf 2.59. Below is, I believe, the relevant section of config.log. To summarize: 1) tests a

Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Roberto Bagnara wrote on Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:32:23AM CEST: > > 1) tests are made for signal.h usability and presence: >these are both successful; > 2) immediately after, a test for sys/time.h presence >failes because "g++: conftest.cc: No such file or directory". >This is strange

Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-06 Thread Roberto Bagnara
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:32:23AM CEST: 1) tests are made for signal.h usability and presence: these are both successful; 2) immediately after, a test for sys/time.h presence failes because "g++: conftest.cc: No such file or directory". This

Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi, * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 05:36:17PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >* Roberto Bagnara wrote on Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:32:23AM CEST: > > I have asked the user to send me the complete configure script. > Meanwhile, I have uploaded the config.log the user sent me: > you

Re: Configure help

2005-07-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bob, * Bob Rossi wrote on Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:25:21PM CEST: > > I am having a little trouble using autoconf to configure my package. > Currently, I am tring to build a package that depends on another > package. Basically CGDB (main package) depends on Readline (second > package). > > I am

Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-06 Thread Roberto Bagnara
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: You said you searched for this already: are all systems this happens on on win32? Maybe some unrelated process keeps some file open or prevents writing to some file? (just another wild guess though) No, these seemed to be more or less system independent: Linux, FreeBSD,

Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

2005-07-06 Thread Roberto Bagnara
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:32:23AM CEST: 1) tests are made for signal.h usability and presence: these are both successful; 2) immediately after, a test for sys/time.h presence failes because "g++: conftest.cc: No such file or directory". This

Re: Configure help

2005-07-06 Thread Bob Rossi
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:07:36PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Bob, > > * Bob Rossi wrote on Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:25:21PM CEST: > > > > I am having a little trouble using autoconf to configure my package. > > Currently, I am tring to build a package that depends on another > > package.