Autoreconf failure

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Sven: OK, now I get it.  Requiring automake is fine, but it's not on the
list of Things You Need From Cygwin.  I'll update the documentation.


***** Attention people building GHC on Win32 *****

	you need to install automake

It's easy to do (from www.cygwin.com), if you don't you'll get strange
messages like 

	Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at
	/usr/autotool/devel/share/autoconf/Autom4te/General.pm line 498,
<GEN6>
	line 4.
	autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 255

when you run autoreconf

Simon

| Well, the "fix" is that people who want to build
| fptools stuff from CVS need an installed automake in
| addition to autoconf. :-) I don't think that this is a
| hard requirement, most open source projects require
| this for active developers, too. Note that we will
| ship GHC/Happy/... with generated configure files, so
| neither autoconf nor automake will be needed by
| end-users who simply want to compile things for
| themselves.