Braden McDaniel <braden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
autoconf, basically. autoconf's check for whether it can use -g is busted, but the effect of this is just a benign warning from the compiler. (I have a patch for this that I submitted to autoconf-patches many months ago; but it was ignored.)
Sorry, I dropped the ball on that. I didn't like your patch, but didn't have time to compose a better one at the time. I just took the time, installed the following patch instead. Please try CVS Autoconf on your compiler installation to see whether this approach works for you.
Thanks for following up on this.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to test this yet. CVS autoconf now appears to want "help2man", which I have not yet succeeded in building/installing on Cygwin. (The attempt sent me on quite a wild goose chase, though: help2man wants perl Locale::gettext wants fresher gettext (than Cygwin packages) wants a C# compiler (!...fortunately this dependency could be disabled).)
Braden
