***BOGO*** Re: [Mingw-users] cfg.mk:20: *** Recursive variable `PATH' references itself (eventually). Stop. while compiling autoconf

[Earnie Boyd <earnie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Monday 29 September 2008 06:53:02 Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> * newthinker wrote on Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 05:50:54AM CEST:
>> > Hi guys,
>> > I get the following error here:
>> > cfg.mk:20: *** Recursive variable `PATH' references itself
>> > (eventually).  Stop.
>>
>> This looks like a bug in the makefiles.
>> Can you please report this to bug-autoconf@xxxxxxx?  Thanks.
>
> Hi Ralf,
>
> I am not the OP, and I haven't managed to exactly reproduce this
> symptom, but as with every other version of autoconf I've built on
> MSYS, with 2.63, I am still unable to build it successfully `in
> place', (in the source directory), while I have no problem at all,
> when using a separate build directory.  (Given a choice, I *never*
> build any package in the source directory anyway).
>

This should be the case for all packages.  Some poorly designed 
packages will only build in the source.  These packages need some 
patching applied.

> On this occasion, the `in place' failure is particularly nasty; the
> `all' primary goal proceeds normally, until it attempts to satisfy
> the `all-am' secondary goal, at which point it starts *installing*
> the partially built package -- very nasty, because it wasn't asked to
> install anything yet, but it is identifying the `install' goal as the
> only candidate to satisfy the `$(srcdir)/INSTALL' prerequisite --
> and, because `install' itself depends on the only partially completed
> `all' goal, this recurses indefinitely.
>

Is that because the INSTALL file exists and confusing the make process? 
  The install target should be declared .phony to prevent make from 
looking for a file target.  I bet csmake (case sensitive make) will 
build this package.

Earnie

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