configure-script failure

Mon Aug 30 15:59:00 GMT 2004

On 2004年8月30日, Jani tiainen wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:21:46AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >
> > > On 2004年8月30日, bertrand marquis wrote:
> > >
> > > > Le lun 30/08/2004 ? 07:50, Jani tiainen a ?crit :
> > > >
> > > > > Why sometimes running ./configure doesn't work?
> > > > >
> > > > > Usually it reports that some feature is missing, but running second
> > > > > time with same parameters doesn't produce error..
> > > > >
> > > > > like:
> > > > >
> > > > > configure --prefix=/target --disable-static
> > > > >
> > > > > in first run I usually get "no such feature 'static'" (or similiar).
> > > > > On second run with exactly same parameters it works.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any explanations for a such behavior?
> > > >
> > > > Hello i run through the same problem from times to times running
> > > > configure scripts and i didn't find any other solution than running the
> > > > configure again. This is quite borring and i was not able to find any
> > > > solution.
> > > >
> > > > I would also be interested in a solution or an explanation if someone
> > > > has one.
> > >
> > > The usual advice for any configure problem is to look at the config.log
> > > file from the failed run of configure (beware, the file is overwritten
> > > every time configure is run). FWIW, you and Jani may have different
> > > problems altogether.
> >
> > However, regardless of whether they are similar or not, we'd actually
> > need *details* for figuring out problems like this, i.e.,
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> >
> > Otherwise, these messages boil down to:
> >
> > "I noticed that sometimes my car won't start but then I wait a little
> > while and it does!"
> >
> > "I have the same problem! Can someone help?"
>> Help, it appeared again... =)
>> Well here is more info:
>> No config.log appears to be generated (or there is previous log, not even
> erased), error produced is:
>> $ ./configure --disable-gtk-doc --prefix=/target --disable-static
> configure: error: invalid feature name: static
>> Error seems to change according to last parameter, but not always. Sometimes I
> get error regarding "gtk-doc".
>> It does appear often, but "randomly". I haven't noticed difference
> between several configure scripts run. Observation shows that it might
> something to do that configure script is fetched from HD instead of
> memory cache..

"configure -v"? "bash -x configure"? Come on, man, do some *debugging*!
	Igor
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