Re: autoconf

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Bob Rossi wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 06:45:10PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> > Bob Rossi wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm using autoconf. I notice when I use things like
> > > AC_CHECK_SIZEOF (int)
> > > that the ac_cv_sizeof_int has the value of "4\r".
> > >
> > > There is an extra carriage return in there. I start my configure
> > > script with
> > >  ./configure --build=mingw32
> > > could that be the problem?
> > >
> > > Is there any solution to having these macro's work correctly on cygwin?
> > > or did I break it by using the --build option? BTW, I can't test it
> > > without the --build option because the configure script doesn't even get
> > > that far otherwise, since this is a mingw package (sort of).
> >
> > Sounds to me like the file you're feeding to autoconf has DOS line endings 
> > in
> > it.
>
> Yes, this is correct. The AC_CHECK_SIZEOF macro does not work with
> -mno-cygwin unless there is a cygwin version of 'cat' on the path.
>
> Is there a standard way to resolve this problem?


I'm not sure.  I'm assuming not using '-mno-cygwin' is not an option?

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