Re: Esound update [need an autoconf/automake wizard]

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu>
To: "cygx" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 2:15 PM
Subject: RE: Esound update [need an autoconf/automake wizard]


> > I just downloaded esound-0.2.8.tar.gz but was unable to build it.
>
> Okay, you can chant an incantation at configure to get esound to
compile:
> configure --target=i686-pc-linux --host=i686-pc-linux
>
> That causes the build to work on Cygwin.  It seems that esound is
using an
> ancient (1999) version of autoconf that doesn't know that Cygwin
exists.
>
> I need an autoconf/automake wizard (Robert Collins comes to mind :) to
> update autoconf/automake for esound and send the patches in to the
esound
> maintainers.  That way we should be able to build without passing fake
build
> flags on Cygwin.


Just copy in config.guess from a newer project and you should be fine.
Can you try that and if it works, thats all the patch needed for the
esound maintainers :}. I'll happily look harder at it if replacing
config.guess doesn't work.

Rob