[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#3654) Cygwin autoheader errors

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[baumans@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Sat Mar  8 00:34:26 2003]:

> I've been working on getting freeciv to compile in windows, but
> cygwin's autoheader(version 2.57) gives this error:
> 
> ' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES.
> autoconf/status.m4:844: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
> configure.ac:715: the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> autoheader: /usr/autotool/devel/bin/autom4te failed with exit status:
> 1
> 
> Does anyone have any clue what this means?  I've tried the stable
> version of autoconf, but goes insane(even more so) while building
> makefiles.

If you use a distributed tarball (like 1.14.0 or the daily snapshots),
it should have autoconf and autoheader already run, so you don't need to
worry about this.

Other than that, I don't know what to say...

jason