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--- On Sun, 6/5/12, René Berber  wrote:

> From: René Berber
> Subject: Re: How do I build this program for Cygwin?
> To: cygwin
> Date: Sunday, 6 May, 2012, 5:39
> On 5/5/2012 10:59 PM, Marilo wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > $ autoconf-2.13
> > autoconf: configure.in: No such file or directory
> 
> You followed the wrong instructions.
> -- René Berber



The instructions - "INSTALL" said
1. configure
2. make
..

But the problem is "configure" didn't exist.

There were no instructions for that, other than the general idea of trying to run autoconf, which is what I tried to do, as I showed. 
First $ autoconf-2.13  then  $ autoconf-2.68


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