Sven: OK, now I get it. Requiring automake is fine, but it's not on the
list of Things You Need From Cygwin. I'll update the documentation.
***** Attention people building GHC on Win32 *****
you need to install automake
It's easy to do (from www.cygwin.com), if you don't you'll get strange
messages like
Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at
/usr/autotool/devel/share/autoconf/Autom4te/General.pm line 498,
<GEN6>
line 4.
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 255
when you run autoreconf
Simon
| Well, the "fix" is that people who want to build
| fptools stuff from CVS need an installed automake in
| addition to autoconf. :-) I don't think that this is a
| hard requirement, most open source projects require
| this for active developers, too. Note that we will
| ship GHC/Happy/... with generated configure files, so
| neither autoconf nor automake will be needed by
| end-users who simply want to compile things for
| themselves.
|
