Autotools are driving me mad

[Stefan Heinzmann]

 --- Stefan Heinzmann <stefan_heinzmann@yahoo.com> schrieb: 
> Hi all,
> 
> after regenerating configure and Makefile.in in the src/bfd
> directory,
> nothing seems to work anymore. The autotools apparently have
> difficulties with continuation lines. I'm working under cygwin and it
> looks like a problem related to the autotool versions.
> 
> There is a note in src/README-maintainer-mode saying that special
> versions of these tools shall be used. Does that apply to cygwin,
> too?
> I thought that there was a special issue with autotools under cygwin
> (see http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg00100.html). If I
> change the tools, will there be repercussions elsewhere? Is it just
> me
> or is this whole autotools business a mess?

I installed the autotools as recommended in src/README-maintainer-mode
but the problem remains: The generated files (i.e. Makefile.in) have
missing continuation lines (the previous line has a backslash as its
last character). I presume it has something to do with the newline
character on cygwin-Windows systems being a CRLF as opposed to just a
LF on Unix.

What tool versions do other people use for binutils development on
cygwin? Is there a version of autotools that works properly? Or is it a
different tool that causes the problem?

You know how annnoying it is to spend such a lot of time debugging the
tools instead of doing what you're supposed to do...

Thanks for any help
Stefan

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