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RE: autoconf/automake problem: simple testcase [was RE: autoconf/automake: just can't get it to work at all.]
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:27:43 -0600
- Subject: RE: autoconf/automake problem: simple testcase [was RE: autoconf/automake: just can't get it to work at all.]
> From: Dave Korn
[snip]
> I don't get that. I've got the default alternatives set,
> so IIUIC it should have selected the most recent autoconf,
> shouldn't it?
>
> I imagine this is intended to work with everything in the
> default installation state, but as you see it certainly doesn't WFM!
You use text mounts? The alternatives package was(is?) busted, and only
worked if /var/lib/alternatives is binmode. If this is it, IIRC correctly
the files therein will have to be manually d2u'ed and/or otherwise fixed up.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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