[vlc] Install error

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Hi All.

I am trying to configure the VLC source on Windoze/CygWin, with the objective of compiling it thereafter.

The required gcc-g++, gcc-mingw, mingw-runtime and win32-api packages have been installed errorlessly using CygWin's setup.exe.

I have also installed the http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/win32/contrib-20040229-win32-bin-gcc3.3.1-only.tar.bz2 libraries.

To put it in a nutshell: care has been taken to follow the installation process as recommended and described (which of course
doesn't mean it's been done without mistake - nobody's perfect ;-)  ).

Unfortunately, halfway through the configuration process, I get this error (see end of this posting for complete console printout):

' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES.
autoconf/status.m4:848: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
configure.ac:3814: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1

I have checked in the archives and have discovered that other people have had the same problem. However, there was no final response
to their questions.

If anybody has an idea how to solve this problem, I 'd be quite happy :)

Thanks in advance!

-Mario


Console printout ("config" is a batch file containing the configuration command line described in the INSTALL.win32 file)


$ ./config
+ AUTOMAKESUCKS=no
+ INSTALLSUCKS=no
+ test -d extras/contrib/bin
+ amvers=none
+ automake-1.7 --version
+ amvers=-1.7
+ automake-1.6 --version
automake-1.6: not found
+ test -1.7 = none
+ gettextize --version
gettextize: not found
+ autopoint=:
+ GETTEXT=no
+ pkg-config --version
pkg-config: not found
+ PKGCONFIG=no
+ aclocal=aclocal-1.7
+ automake=automake-1.7
+ autoconf=autoconf
+ autoheader=autoheader
+ set +x
generating modules/**/Makefile.am and m4/private.m4
......................................................................... done.
+ rm -f aclocal.m4 configure config.log config.h config.h.in
+ rm -Rf autom4te.cache
+ rm -f config.guess config.sub missing mkinstalldirs compile depcomp install-sh

+ cd autotools
+ rm -f config.guess config.sub missing mkinstalldirs compile depcomp install-sh

+ rm -f ltmain.sh libtool ltconfig
+ rm -f ABOUT-NLS
+ rm -Rf intl
+ rm -f m4/oldgettext.m4 stamp-pic configure.ac.in Modules.am
+ rm -f stamp-builtin stamp-h* mozilla/stamp-pic
+ rm -f vlc-config.in
+ printf
+ [ no != yes ]
+ test -d intl
+ mkdir intl
+ printf
+ printf
+ : -f
+ aclocal-1.7 -I m4
+ autoconf
' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES.
autoconf/status.m4:848: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
configure.ac:3814: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1

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