Hi Brian, * Brian wrote on Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:08:09AM CET: > As I found out the hard way, `aux' is not portable to Cygwin, as it is a > reserved folder name in Windows. You will not receive an explicit error. > Instead your folder will simply be corrupted. The reason is that Windows > won't let you directly create a folder named `aux', it will just revert > immediately to "New Folder." Given that, they did not add any error checking > code for an imported folder with this name. > > Any chance of sneaking this into that macro's help text? Quoting CVS Autoconf docs: | -- Macro: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR (DIR) | Use the auxiliary build tools (e.g., `install-sh', `config.sub', | [...] | If you need portability to DOS variants, do not name the auxiliary | directory `aux'. *Note File System Conventions::. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf