libtool error while building setup as a Cygwin app

[Charles Wilson]

Max Bowsher wrote:

>>$ cygcheck -c autoconf autoconf-devel autoconf-stable automake
>>automake-devel automake-stable
>>Cygwin Package Information
>>Package             Version
>>autoconf            2.54-1
>>autoconf-devel      2.57-1
>>autoconf-stable     2.13-4
>>automake            1.7.1-1
>>automake-devel      1.7.2-1
>>automake-stable     1.4p5-5
> 
> 
> Me too. Those are the [curr] versions.
> 
> I'm really confused what could be causing this.

I hate to say this, but try removing the autotool gen'ed files and 
running the bootstrap script again (yes, I know this is the "try 
rebooting" answer).  I've noticed some intermittent weirdness where the 
libtool script doesn't get generated properly -- but it's intermittent 
so I can't track it down.

Most commonly, when I see an "unable to infer tagged configuration", if 
I look at the actual libtool script I can see that it is improperly 
formed.  Re-bootstrapping usually fixes it.  Sigh.

--Chuck