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Igor wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Jani tiainen wrote: > > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:21:46AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, bertrand marquis wrote: > > > > > > > > > Le lun 30/08/2004 ? 07:50, Jani tiainen a ?crit : > > > > > > > > > > > Why sometimes running ./configure doesn't work? > > > > > > > > > > > > Usually it reports that some feature is missing, > but running second > > > > > > time with same parameters doesn't produce error.. > > > > > > > > > > > > like: > > > > > > > > > > > > configure --prefix=/target --disable-static > > > > > > > > > > > > in first run I usually get "no such feature > 'static'" (or similiar). > > > > > > On second run with exactly same parameters it works. > > > > > > > > > > > > Any explanations for a such behavior? > > > > > > > > > > Hello i run through the same problem from times to > times running > > > > > configure scripts and i didn't find any other > solution than running the > > > > > configure again. This is quite borring and i was not > able to find any > > > > > solution. > > > > > > > > > > I would also be interested in a solution or an > explanation if someone > > > > > has one. > > > > > > > > The usual advice for any configure problem is to look > at the config.log > > > > file from the failed run of configure (beware, the file > is overwritten > > > > every time configure is run). FWIW, you and Jani may > have different > > > > problems altogether. > > > > > > However, regardless of whether they are similar or not, > we'd actually > > > need *details* for figuring out problems like this, i.e., > > > > > > http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > > > > > Otherwise, these messages boil down to: > > > > > > "I noticed that sometimes my car won't start but then I > wait a little > > > while and it does!" > > > > > > "I have the same problem! Can someone help?" > > > > Help, it appeared again... =) > > > > Well here is more info: > > > > No config.log appears to be generated (or there is previous > log, not even > > erased), error produced is: > > > > $ ./configure --disable-gtk-doc --prefix=/target --disable-static > > configure: error: invalid feature name: static > > > > Error seems to change according to last parameter, but not > always. Sometimes I > > get error regarding "gtk-doc". > > > > It does appear often, but "randomly". I haven't noticed difference > > between several configure scripts run. Observation shows > that it might > > something to do that configure script is fetched from HD instead of > > memory cache.. > > "configure -v"? "bash -x configure"? Come on, man, do some > *debugging*! > Igor Attached is the output of a bash -x run of my testcase, available here: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg01025.html Looks like a bug to me as "extra-includes" is alphanumeric, which I believe is what is being tested. Cheers, Peter
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