Cannot build latest CVS setup

[Max Bowsher]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> I'm struggling with building the latest setup.  Here's what I get:
>
> $ cd /usr/src/setup
> $ cvs update setup
> M setup/PickPackageLine.cc
> M setup/PickView.cc
> M setup/PickView.h
> M setup/String++.cc
> M setup/String++.h
> M setup/localdir.cc
> M setup/root.cc
> cvs update: move away setup/cfgaux/.direxists; it is in the way
> C setup/cfgaux/.direxists
> $ # that last one looks kinda weird, but probably unrelated

Umm, bizarre!

> $ cd setup && ./bootstrap.sh
> /usr/share/aclocal/freetype2.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of
>  AC_CHECK_FT2 run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
>  or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
> Autotool bootstrapping complete.
> $ # again, something's weird here

Harmless, but annoyingly verbose - at least, when it isn't our code causing 
it.
Perhaps we need to prod the freetype2 (Cygwin|upstream) maintainer.

> $ mkdir build && cd build
> $ ../setup/configure -C --disable-shared --enable-maintainer-mode CC='gcc
> -mno-cygwin' CXX='g++ -mno-cygwin' > configure.log 2>&1 $ # nothing
> untoward in the configure output $ make > make.log 2>&1
> $ tail make.log
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/setup-cvs/build'
> Making all in libgetopt++
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/setup-cvs/build/libgetopt++'
> cd ../../setup/libgetopt++ && /bin/bash
> /usr/src/setup-cvs/setup/libgetopt++/cfgaux/missing --run autoconf
> Can't locate object method "path" via package "Request" at
> /usr/autotool/devel/share/autoconf/Autom4te/C4che.pm line 69, <GEN1> line

Mysterious!

> 111. make[2]: *** [../../setup/libgetopt++/configure] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/setup-cvs/build/libgetopt++'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/setup-cvs/build'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> $ cygcheck -cd | egrep 'auto|libtool'
> autoconf             2.59-1
> autoconf-devel       2.59-1
> autoconf-stable      2.13-5
> automake             1.7.9-1
> automake-devel       1.9.2-1
> automake-stable      1.4p6-2
> libtool              1.5b-1
> libtool-devel        1.5.10-1
> libtool-stable       1.4.3-2

Ditto.

> Same errors with a fresh checkout.  Any ideas?  Am I doing something
> wrong?

No, but apparently something is odd with your system, since it works for me, 
following the commands you show above.

> P.S. Incidentally, neither Max nor Brian (nor me :-)) are in the
> CONTRIBUTORS file.

Oh... yeah, probably ought to update that! :-)

Done.

> P.P.S. It might be nice to make the word "README" on the setup homepage
> a link to the CVS version (where it says "For instructions on how to
> build setup.exe, see the README file included in its source.").

Done.

Max.