Re: Do autotools support free Microsoft compiler?

[Braden McDaniel]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Braden McDaniel <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > autoconf, basically. autoconf's check for whether it can use -g is
> > busted, but the effect of this is just a benign warning from the
> > compiler. (I have a patch for this that I submitted to
> > autoconf-patches many months ago; but it was ignored.)
>
>
> Sorry, I dropped the ball on that.  I didn't like your patch, but
> didn't have time to compose a better one at the time.  I just took the
> time, installed the following patch instead.  Please try CVS Autoconf
> on your compiler installation to see whether this approach works for
> you.

Thanks for following up on this.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to test this yet. CVS autoconf now 
appears to want "help2man", which I have not yet succeeded in 
building/installing on Cygwin. (The attempt sent me on quite a wild 
goose chase, though: help2man wants perl Locale::gettext wants fresher 
gettext (than Cygwin packages) wants a C# compiler (!...fortunately this 
dependency could be disabled).)

Braden