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Re: Troubles using automake with CygWin on NT
- To: "Walter Lievens" <Walter dot Lievens at saillabs dot be>
- Subject: Re: Troubles using automake with CygWin on NT
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: 17 Dec 2000 16:25:13 -0700
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
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- References: <C12569A6.0054CA2B.00@notes-ant.sail-labs.be>
- Reply-To: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Walter" == Walter Lievens <Walter.Lievens@saillabs.be> writes:
Walter> Since I want to install MySQL++ (the C++ API of MySQL), I need
Walter> to use automake.
I'm a bit suprised. Ordinarily a package maintainer uses `make dist';
then the person building the package doesn't need automake.
Walter> /d/develop/3rdparty/mysql++-1.7.8$ automake
Walter> Can't open perl script "/usr/local/bin/automake": No such file or directory
Walter> What did I do wrong? First, I thought that the magic header
Walter> '#!/usr/local/bin/perl' didn't work. A test perl program with
Walter> the same magic header works, though.
I honestly don't know what the problem is.
It sounds like a Cywin problem, though -- I'd try asking on the
approrpiate Cygwin list.
Tom