Re: [bug-mailutils] configure fails on Cygwin

[Nicolas Reimen]

Hi guys.

 

It still does not work but I have tried a couple of things on Darrel's advice and have got some results.

 

1. Working from the current CVS version, it appeared I was lacking a cygwin module and, as a result, autopoint was not present. The module I added was "gettext-devel". This allowed autogen.sh to complete, though it spwed a number of messages along the way an I am unable to tell if they are worrying or not.

 

2. From that point I had a configure command I could run and I did it. But it failed. Actually, the way it failed looked exactly the same a what I had got with the 1.2 snapshot. So I re-ran everything from the start, with the current CVS,and both the 1.1 and 1.2 snapshots (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailutils/mailutils-1.2.tar.bz2 and http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailutils/mailutils-1.1.tar.bz2). Indeed, the way it fails is exactly the same. The end of the messages before the failure is in all 3 cases :

 

checking size of off_t... 8
checking for long... yes
checking size of long... 4
checking for long long... (cached) yes
checking size of long long... 8
: integer _expression_ expected: 8
: integer _expression_ expected: 8
-byte type, suitable for mu_off_t

 

Attached are 3 zip files, each containing a copy of the command line sequence of messages (cmdl.txt) and the main files that were created. Thanks for any help you can provide.

 

N.R.

 

On 8/22/07, d.henman <address@hidden> wrote:

Nicolas Reimen <address@hidden> wrote:
> $ ./autogen.sh
> Can't exec "autopoint": No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/
> FileUtils.pm line 290.
> autoreconf-2.61 : failed to run autopoint: No such file or directory
>
> I have checked what cygwin modules I have and I see nothing obvious missing:
> autoconf, automake, M4, perl, make are all there. I must be overlooking something
> but what is it ?...
>
> N.R.

Nicolas, what do you get when you type the below?
$ autopoint --version


In my case I get -->  /bin/autopoint (GNU gettext-tools) 0.15


If you can't get cvs going try downloading the following tar.bz2 file and
just untar and ./configure it.  See what happens.

   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailutils/mailutils-1.2.tar.bz2

With this you don't need the auto tools.

Regards,
  Darel Henman

1.1.zip
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1.2.zip
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Current cvs.zip
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