Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <38D253A3.8CD62DD8@attglobal.net> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:47:47 -0500 From: John Fortin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com" Subject: Re: File permision errors on win98 with net release candidate References: <20000317132638 DOT 18245 DOT qmail AT web120 DOT yahoomail DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Earnie Boyd wrote: > Hi John, > > Your problem might be due to autoconf itself. I've been working with modifying > autoconf to work with Amol's ntport of zsh and had to modify it to look for > m4.exe, gawk.exe, etc instead of just m4, gawk, etc. The function is > AC_PATH_PROG in acgeneral.m4. You'll have to modify the configure by hand to > bootstrap. See line 545 of configure for the check for gm4, gnum4 and m4. > > Earnie. > Hi Earnie, But this worked in the past without any problems. And other packages are broken too ( grep, fileutils for instance). John