Re: [Mingw-users] cfg.mk:20: *** Recursive variable `PATH' references itself (eventually). Stop. while compiling autoconf

[Keith Marshall]

On Monday 29 September 2008 06:53:02 Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello,
>
> * newthinker wrote on Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 05:50:54AM CEST:
> > Hi guys,
> > I get the following error here:
> > cfg.mk:20: *** Recursive variable `PATH' references itself
> > (eventually).  Stop.
>
> This looks like a bug in the makefiles.
> Can you please report this to address@hidden  Thanks.

Hi Ralf,

I am not the OP, and I haven't managed to exactly reproduce this 
symptom, but as with every other version of autoconf I've built on 
MSYS, with 2.63, I am still unable to build it successfully `in 
place', (in the source directory), while I have no problem at all, 
when using a separate build directory.  (Given a choice, I *never* 
build any package in the source directory anyway).

On this occasion, the `in place' failure is particularly nasty; the 
`all' primary goal proceeds normally, until it attempts to satisfy 
the `all-am' secondary goal, at which point it starts *installing* 
the partially built package -- very nasty, because it wasn't asked to 
install anything yet, but it is identifying the `install' goal as the 
only candidate to satisfy the `$(srcdir)/INSTALL' prerequisite -- 
and, because `install' itself depends on the only partially completed 
`all' goal, this recurses indefinitely.

Regards,
Keith.