Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com X-Authentication-Warning: james.esem.com: news set sender to nittka@esem.com using -f Path: james.esem.com!not-for-mail From: Oliver Nittka Subject: Re: Autocon error on cygwin1 Date: 23 May 2000 09:24:22 +0200 Organization: ESEM Gmbh, Markdorf/Germany Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <392926DC.C766F7DC@ca2.so-net.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: edp22.esem.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: james.esem.com 959066663 4720 192.168.1.22 (23 May 2000 07:24:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@esem.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 May 2000 07:24:23 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0805 (Gnus v5.8.5) Emacs/20.6 Xref: james.esem.com mailing-lists.cygwin:3556 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Ichiroh Andoh writes: > "c:/bin/bash.exe"-2.03$ autoconf --help > > : not found > : not found > : not found > : not found > : not found > : not found > /usr/local/bin/autoconf: 41: Syntax error: expecting "in" i've seen this a couple of times, and each time it was a matter of binary vs. text mounts. i.e. i compiled autoconf in a textmode-mounted directory and installed it into a binary-mounted directory. or i remounted my root from binary to textonly. i recently had to compile autoconf and for me, it was best to mount both /usr (where i installed autoconf) and usr/src (where i compiles it) in binary mode. hth -- oly -- Oliver Nittka | nittka@esem.com ESEM Grünau GmbH & Co. KG | http://www.esem.com Dornierstraße 6 | phone: +49 7544 9583-25 88677 Markdorf / Germany | fax: +49 7544 9583-60 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com