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? Thanks, Bob Rossi -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/