Re: [Mingw-users] autoreconf does not recurse

[Roumen Petrov]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> [ adding bug-autoconf; replies can drop mingw-users as this is not
>   MinGW-specific ]
>
> Hello Nathan,
>
> * Nathan Schulte wrote on Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 08:17:19AM CET:
> > According to the autoconf documentation, autoreconf is recursive by default.  To
> > disable recursion, one must specify the --no-recursive option.[1]
> >
> > However, I am not seeing any recursion at all, regardless of any option I pass
> > to autoreconf.
>
> Bug in autoreconf.  Workaround: replace
>
> > AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([
> >     subpackage
> > ])
>
> with
>   AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([subpackage])
>
> in the toplevel configure.ac.  Thanks for reporting this!
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf


Is this only bug in autoconf when it is run on cygwin ?

As example "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130896"; with 
following change 
"http://git.gnome.org/cgit/libxml2/commit/?id=e4177a54c5f3723407eba6c8a86cc36f4081261a"; 

look similar but issue is for AC_OUTPUT .

Roumen