pinfo configure problem - configure.ac (0/1)

Tue May 13 16:16:00 GMT 2014

> On May 13 07:49, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > > On May 13 06:55, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to build pinfo 0.6.10 in 64-bit. The configure script halts,
> > > > claiming "curses is not usable". The command that fails is:
> > > > 
> > > > gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 -I/usr/include -L/usr/lib -lncursesw
> > > > conftest.c 
> > > > 
> > > > and this fails because the order of the arguments is wrong. The command
> > > > should be
> > > > 
> > > > gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 -I/usr/include conftest.c -L/usr/lib
> > > > -lncursesw 
> > > > 
> > > > and that succeeds. So my question is really an autoconf question: How
> > > > can I tell autoconf to fix the order of the compiler arguments?
> > > 
> > > Doesn't calling `autoreconf' fix this problem? If so, if you use
> > > cygport, the default build strategy contains the autoreconf step.
> > > If you defin your own build function, call cygautoreconf as first
> > > step after `cd ${B}'.
> > 
> > No, unfortunately it doesn't. I ran 'autoreconf -i' first.
>> autoreconf -f -i?

Alas, no.
Here's configure.ac, in case that's helpful.
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