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Re: [Mingw-users] cfg.mk:20: *** Recursive variable `PATH' references it
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Keith Marshall |
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Re: [Mingw-users] cfg.mk:20: *** Recursive variable `PATH' references itself (eventually). Stop. while compiling autoconf |
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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:25:15 +0100 |
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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.
- Re: [Mingw-users] cfg.mk:20: *** Recursive variable `PATH' references itself (eventually). Stop. while compiling autoconf,
Keith Marshall <=