Dear Earnie and Keith,
Many thanks for your support, warmly appreciated.
Earnie (2018/08/23 13:08 -0400):
> It's going to depend on what you want. If you're using the crosstools
> for MinGW-w64 then you would specify --host as {i686,x86_64}-w64-mingw32
> and --build as {i686,x86_64}-pc-cygwin.
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On 24/08/18 09:23, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> Keith Marshall (2018/08/23 20:00 +0100):
>> For --build, the output from config.guess should always be
>> suitable; for --host, it may be okay to affix an arbitrary
>> suffix to mingw32, such as (untested
Keith Marshall (2018/08/24 10:50 +0100):
> > But why would you include a "mingw" string in something that does
> > not use mingw at all?
>
> Because it's an OS name already known to config.sub, and because it's
> an OS designator which is specific to native MS-Windows software
> builds, (but see
I'm catching this error on Fedora 28, x86_64, fully patched:
$ autoreconf -fi
configure.ac:35: error: require Automake 1.16.1, but have 1.15.1
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
This is a chronic problem with Autotools. Nearly every program that
gets patched has a problem like this.
On 08/24/2018 04:55 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I'm catching this error on Fedora 28, x86_64, fully patched:
$ autoreconf -fi
configure.ac:35: error: require Automake 1.16.1, but have 1.15.1
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
You'll need to ask whatever project you are trying to bui
> It is not autoconf's problem when someone writes a configure.ac that wrongly
> claims to use too-new of a version of automake. But if you don't think the
> package is actually relying on a feature that only that newer automake
> provided, you are welcome to edit configure.ac and change the
> AM_
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:59 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> It is not autoconf's problem when someone writes a configure.ac that wrongly
>> claims to use too-new of a version of automake. But if you don't think the
>> package is actually relying on a feature that only that newer automake
>> provide
