[avrdude-dev] The wonderful world of autoconf (was: Re: avrdude release?)

[E. Weddington]

On 15 Jul 2004 at 22:42, Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> As Bob Paddock wrote:
> 
> > On my linux system I use GENTOO with its port/slot system that is not
> > a problem.  Alas doesn't help with the cygwin problem right now.
> 
> Why not rename the executables there as well?

Double-plus ugh. Apparently Cygwin has 2 different autoconf's: 2.59 and 2.13 
with some elaborate script that will automatically switch between the two. 
Here's the output of autoconf --version:

===========================================
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
--------------------------------------------------------
Autoconf version 2.13
--------------------------------------------------------
This is autoconf-wrapper, which will hand off execution
to one of the two real versions listed above, depending
on the contents of configure.in/configure.ac.  Since the
wrapper was called from within a directory in which those
files are not found, this generic 'version' message is
displayed.
===========================================