Building tinc on windows with bash

[Henk]

Thank you, I will gladly try this.

For your information I did do:
sudo apt-get install autoconf-archive

I got this from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30412576/autotools-syntax-error-with-ax-check-compile-flag

That did not make any difference.



-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: tinc-devel [mailto:tinc-devel-bounces at tinc-vpn.org] Namens Guus Sliepen
Verzonden: dinsdag 27 september 2016 14:14
Aan: tinc-devel at tinc-vpn.org
Onderwerp: Re: Building tinc on windows with bash

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 11:00:38AM +0000, Henk wrote:

> ./configure: line 5272: syntax error near unexpected token `AX_APPEND_FLAG'
> ./configure: line 5272: `AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED(AX_APPEND_FLAG)'
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
[...]
> I would like to have a build procedure I can repeat, like the tinc.sh from snip2code. Can somebody tell how to find out why I got the syntax error near unexpected token `AX_APPEND_FLAG' message?

Ah, it seems the build system makes use of AX_APPEND_FLAG, but this macro is not defined in the standard autoconf macros, but rather requires you to install the autoconf-archive package. It is not a problem when you download the tarball, because there it comes with a pre-generated configure script.

I'll make sure to add a copy of that macro to tinc's git repository so it's more self-contained.

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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>