windows install automake fails when configuring

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Update: I am trying to install sphinxbase. But after I cd to the sphinxbase directory and run ./autogen.sh, the terminal(cygwin) tells me:

Error: You must have `libtool' installed. Get ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.2.6b.tar.gz (or a newer version if it is available)

Error: You must have `automake' installed. Get ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/automake-1.11.tar.gz (or a newer version if it is available)

I am using cygwin to execute the configure of automake under unzipped automake directory , but I encounter this:

User@6F-287202-NB-01 /cygdrive/c/Users/User/Desktop/cpythonworkspace/sphinx/automake-1.9

$ ./configure --build x86_64-pc-cygwin

  • checking build system type... x86_64-pc-cygwin checking for a

  • BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build

  • environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether

  • make sets $(MAKE)... ./configure: eval: line 1542: unexpected EOF

  • while looking for matching `"' ./configure: eval: line 1543: syntax

  • error: unexpected end of file

How to solve the unexpected EOF problem?

I open the configure file and jump to 1541th, 1542th line:

# GNU make sometimes prints "make1: Entering...", which would confuse us. eval `${MAKE-make} -f conftest.make 2>/dev/null | grep temp=`

notepad++ screenshot

Cindy

Posted 2019-01-31T02:50:21.367

Reputation: 3

Could you provide a link of that file? If you have Notepad++, can you provide a screenshot of that line with "show all symbol" enabled? – Biswapriyo – 2019-01-31T04:16:09.050

Please take a look at https://drive.google.com/file/d/15ObdfMXPRzw3JDHPdfh13eUYkSL5Yn9Y/view?usp=sharing. I will install Notepad++ later

– Cindy – 2019-01-31T04:20:45.687

For the notepad++ screenshot, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cz98BULc20QHIZQdBnnXSLg9s6Xiz1P_/view?usp=sharing

– Cindy – 2019-01-31T04:25:45.517

python2-sphinx and python3-sphinx are available on cygwin. Why do you need to install from source ? – matzeri – 2019-01-31T07:08:27.187

@matzeri I am not sure if sphinx and cmu-sphinx are the same thing. Initially I guess that they are different. I am trying to install cmu-sphinxbase cmu-pocketsphinx. Can you give me some ideas? Thank you. – Cindy – 2019-01-31T07:12:28.340

You should put this info in your question, including how you are doing the things step by step. cmu-sphinxbase is a different project from sphinx – matzeri – 2019-01-31T07:41:19.663

On my cygwin 64 bit the unzip sphinxbase-master.zip; cd sphinxbase-master; ./autogen.sh works fine. – matzeri – 2019-01-31T07:43:39.383

Answers

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Install libtool and automake with Cygwin setup.
You will need also python2-devel or python3-devel, gcc-core and swig

You can check after installation with:

$ cygcheck -cd libtool automake
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version
automake             10-1
libtool              2.4.6-6

The package automake will pull all versions of automake 1.x available. If other packages are reported missing, check if they already available in cygwin https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html before trying to install by source. The following works without extra package from what available on cygwin

$ unzip sphinxbase-master.zip
$ cd sphinxbase-master
$ ./autogen.sh
**Warning**: I am going to run `configure' with no arguments.
If you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the
`./autogen.sh' command line.

processing .
Running libtoolize...
...
config.status: executing libtool commands
Now type `make' to compile the package.

matzeri

Posted 2019-01-31T02:50:21.367

Reputation: 1 662

Thank you. What if the cygcheck command returns only header with empty content, what might be the problems( I restart the cygwin after installing)? – Cindy – 2019-01-31T08:30:36.513

I solved the abovee by using apt-cyg command; it's convenient. – Cindy – 2019-01-31T08:56:29.860

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