Re: [sos] Autotools and Cygwin?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello,

* F. Girault wrote on Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:40:07PM CET:
> I have been trying to compile a small sample program with automake over
> cygwin following 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/automake/Creating-amhello.html#Creating-amhello
[...]
> $ automake --version
> automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1
[...]
> $ autoconf --version
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.65
[...]
> $ ./configure
[...]
> configure: creating ./config.status
> .in'ig.status: error: cannot find input file: `

That looks like you have binmode set to off, or some other exotic Cygwin
option set.  Try enabling binmode (or better, try this on a new mount
point with binmode set, so you don't bork you other existing data).

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf