Error when building m4 under cygwin with mingw?

elinuxqs · 07-18-2007, 03:27 AM

I have the latest cygwin and mingw on my Windows XP SP2. And I am learning autoconf and automake, which m4 is needed by. So I downloaded an m4 src tarball from gnu.org, and built it as below:

./configure
mingw32-make

./configure was successful, but mingw32-make encountered an error like this:

/usr/bin/mkdir -p sys
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, /usr/bin/mkdir -p sys, ...) failed.
make (e=3): No such file or directory

I have not found answers at google.com and cygwin.com yet, so I came here for help, thanks^_^

(I have searched this forum for "createprocess" but no results.)

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Tinkster · 07-18-2007, 07:54 PM

Moved: This thread is more suitable in <General> and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

elinuxqs · 07-18-2007, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tinkster

Moved: This thread is more suitable in <General> and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

Thank Tinkster

Can anybody help me?

brianL · 07-19-2007, 08:14 AM

Can't help with your problem, but why do you want to build m4 when it's already included in the default install?

elinuxqs · 07-20-2007, 03:16 AM

Yes, there is m4 in the cygwin packages that I found yesterday. And I have solved the problem by myself. Thanks ^ ^