RE: Automake version 1.4 in CygWin vs. current Automake 1.9.2 ...

["Herb Martin" <HerbM at learnquick dot com>]

> I doubt it.  I'm the maintainer of the autoconf, automake, 
> and libtool packages and your explanation confused *me*.
> 
> Please see:
> "Updated: All autotools on cygwin (autoconf, automake, libtool)"
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2005-08/msg00059.html
> 
> --
> Chuck

It explain only of what I had done -- and
chances are I still haven't done it right
since I still cannot make.  Working assumption
is that I haven't really "switched" to the new
automake.

I cannot get alternatives to take any combo of 
switches to "switch" to automake 1.9

 /usr/sbin/alternatives --set automake automake-1.9
 /usr/sbin/alternatives --set automake automake-1.9 /usr/bin/
 info alternatives
 /usr/sbin/alternatives --remove automake
 /usr/sbin/alternatives --usage
 /usr/sbin/alternatives --dispaly automake

Obviously my attempt to just "recreate the link"
are insufficient.

[How do multiple obsolete versions get installed
on a CygWin machine AUTOMATICALLY, and how does
the old automake1.4 get made the default without
anyone doing that explicitly?]

How does one fix this? 

$ ./autogen.sh
configure.ac:18: version mismatch.  This is Automake 1.9.6,
configure.ac:18: but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
configure.ac:18: comes from Automake 1.4-p6.  You should recreate
configure.ac:18: aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again.
/usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
autogen.sh: exited by previous error(s), return code was 63

I have run aclocal naively:  $ aclocal

which modified the following files in the local directory:

     31 Sep 30 11:08 config.guess -> /usr/share/libtool/config.guess
     29 Sep 30 11:08 config.sub -> /usr/share/libtool/config.sub
     28 Sep 30 11:08 ltmain.sh -> /usr/share/libtool/ltmain.sh
 329028 Sep 30 11:08 aclocal.m4
      0 Sep 30 11:08 autom4te.cache

...but then receive the same error message.

Currently I have just printed the first 40+ pages
of the autoconf manual, and suppose that I must
learn how this stuff really works just to fix
whatever has happened.

--
Herb Martin


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