RE: autogen doesn't compile on cygwin

[Robert Collins]

Try the cygwin libtool-devel package. You'll need to re-libtoolize, and
upgrade to autoconf 2.5x and automake 1.61 at the same time.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On 
> Behalf Of Bruce Korb
> Sent: Monday, 24 June 2002 11:57 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: autogen doesn't compile on cygwin
> 
> 
> address@hidden wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Bruce,
> > I tried to compile AutoGen on cygwin and it didn't build.
> > If you are interested, this is the make command giving the
> > problem and the error message:
> > > gcc -Wl,--base-file,.libs/cygsnprintfv-0.dll-base
> > > -Wl,-e,address@hidden
> > > -o .libs/cygsnprintfv-0.dll  filament.lo format.lo list.lo
> > > snprintfv.lo stream.lo
> > 
> > > /usr/lib/libcygwin.a(libcmain.o)(.text+0x6a):
> > > undefined reference to address@hidden'
> > I've found some documentation regarding this problem at
> > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC93
> > but I don't know enough to fix the problem (yet).
> > If you know of a version of AutoGen that does compile on cygwin,
> > please let me know. Thanks,
> > Tom
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> I don't use CygWin, so I have to rely on others.
> 
> This looks again like the "convenience library" stuff being
> anything but a convenience.  I know that AutoGen has been
> gotten to build and work.  It would certainly be nice to
> know why it sometimes won't build.  Gary?  CygWin users of
> libtool?  Any suggestions or hints?  Drop back to an older libtool?
> 
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