Hi Tim, Which version of WSL are you running? I was able to build using WSL 14 usually problem-free, but the jump to WSL 16 has caused the complications. Tried your suggestion to no avail. Cheers, Chris On 6 May 2017 at 14:54, Christopher Di Bella <cjdb.ns@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Which version of WSL are you running? I was able to build using WSL 14 > usually problem-free, but the jump to WSL 16 has caused the complications. > Tried your suggestion to no avail. > > Cheers, > > Chris > > On Sat, 6 May 2017 at 11:18 Tim Prince via gcc-help <gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> On 5/5/2017 8:29 PM, Christopher Di Bella wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm having difficulty building GCC 7.1 on Bash for Windows 16.04. I >> > used to be able to build trunk prior to the Creator's Update, but now >> > get the error below. Interestingly, I successfully built on Arch Linux >> > last night. >> > >> > ``` >> > Configuring stage 1 in ./mpc >> > configure.ac:4: error: version mismatch. This is Automake 1.15, >> > configure.ac:4: but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE >> > configure.ac:4: comes from Automake 1.14.1. You should recreate >> > configure.ac:4: aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again. >> > WARNING: 'automake-1.14' is probably too old. >> > You should only need it if you modified 'Makefile.am' or >> > 'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'. >> > The 'automake' program is part of the GNU Automake package: >> > <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake> >> > It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run: >> > <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf> >> > <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/> >> > <http://www.perl.org/> >> > ``` >> > >> > I haven't made any modifications (so I wasn't aware this would be >> > necessary). >> > When I run aclocal and automake, I get this: >> > >> > ``` >> > configure.ac:33: error: Please use exactly Autoconf 2.64 instead of >> > 2.69. >> > config/override.m4:12: _GCC_AUTOCONF_VERSION_CHECK is expanded from... >> > configure.ac:33: the top level >> > autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 >> > aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1 >> > ``` >> > >> > This means that I need to build automake from scratch, but building >> > automake 1.14.1 has its own complications that are probably outside of >> > this list's scope. >> > >> > Just wondering if anyone has overcome a similar problem on Bash for >> > Windows or Ubuntu 16.04? I've attached the logs that I think are >> > relevant. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > >> > Chris >> > >> I apparently installed on WSL from automake_1.15-4ubuntu1_all.deb. As >> far as I can remember I used the pre-built versions of autoconf, m4, >> perl, mpc et al. obtained by apt-get. >> In my experience with various Windows variants, it's not a good idea to >> attempt the integrated build according to download_prerequisites where >> the pre-built utilities are OK. >> My build of gcc 7.1 came from trunk svn immediately prior to release. >> Is that different from final? Recent trunk 8.0 still built but wouldn't >> run make check even in serial mode. >> >> -- >> Tim Prince
