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Re: Problem using cygwin autoconf
- From: Brad Bell <bradbell at seanet dot com>
- To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 10:37:48 -0800
- Subject: Re: Problem using cygwin autoconf
- References: <418489A3.9050908@seanet.com> <41849C03.3030007@familiehaase.de>
Brad Bell wrote:
Recently (today) I installed the current version of Cygwin from
mirrors.kernel.org
Now I am having trouble using the autoconf and automake tools under
cygwin.
To be specific, In response to the command
autoconf
I get the error message
Can't locate object method "path" via package "Request" at
/usr/autotool/devel/share/autoconf/Autom4te/C4che.pm
line 69, <GEN1> line 214.
I get a similar error message in response to the aclocal and
autoheader commands.
Do you have any suggestions as to how I should proceed to resolve
this problem ?
I found the solution to this problem on the web page
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-06/msg00047.html
To be specific, in my case I had to delete the file
autom4te.cache
It appears that the autoconf and automake tools use files of the form
'*.cache'
that are stored in the users directories. When a new versions of these tools
are installed, the '*.cache' files corresponding to the old versions
should be deleted.
These are not automatically deleted when the old versions are uninstalled,
because they are in the users directory.
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