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I have gone through all the instructions for installing Cygwin and then HTK on it.(As per 2006 Voxforge documentation). When i did first time, i didn't face any problem. But due to some problems, this time, i am facing the following problem:
bhupaesh@bhupaesh-PC
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/htk/HTK-3.4.1/htk
$ ./configure
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for main in -lX11... no
checking for main in -lm... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for X... no
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking errno.h usability... yes
checking errno.h presence... yes
checking for errno.h... yes
checking fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking float.h usability... yes
checking float.h presence... yes
checking for float.h... yes
checking limits.h usability... yes
checking limits.h presence... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking malloc.h usability... yes
checking malloc.h presence... yes
checking for malloc.h... yes
checking for memory.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/ioctl.h usability... yes
checking sys/ioctl.h presence... yes
checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes
checking sys/socket.h usability... yes
checking sys/socket.h presence... yes
checking for sys/socket.h... yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking for working memcmp... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... yes
checking for working strtod... yes
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for vprintf... yes
checking for _doprnt... no
checking for floor... yes
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking for memmove... yes
checking for memset... yes
checking for modf... yes
checking for pow... yes
checking for socket... yes
checking for sqrt... yes
checking for strchr... yes
checking for strcspn... yes
checking for strrchr... yes
checking for strspn... yes
checking for strstr... yes
checking for strtol... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating HTKLib/Makefile
config.status: WARNING: HTKLib/Makefile.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir se
config.status: creating HTKTools/Makefile
config.status: WARNING: HTKTools/Makefile.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir
config.status: creating HLMLib/Makefile
config.status: WARNING: HLMLib/Makefile.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir se
config.status: creating HLMTools/Makefile
config.status: WARNING: HLMTools/Makefile.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir
config.status: creating HTKLVRec/Makefile
config.status: WARNING: HTKLVRec/Makefile.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: WARNING: Makefile.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
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HTK is now ready to be built.
Type "make all" to build the HTK libraries
and tools.
Then "make install" to install them.
The tools will be installed in /usr/local/bin
Build notes: Language Modelling tools will be
built. HDecode will not be built. You can build
it manually later by running 'make hdecode
install-hdecode'
Please help me as soon as possible.
Ignore them. These are just warnings about an obscure command line option.
You most likely upgraded your autoconf (or more likely cygwin behind your back did the upgrade) as these appear on autoconf 2.64 or so (I am not sure as it was very long ago when I ran to these last time).
The warnings are telling that the configure script appears to ignore --datarootdir which is used when installing executables under one root and data under a different root. This is not the normal user case and won't impact anything when you don't use --datarootdir.
Personally I never needed --datarootdir and thus I ignore these. I never experienced any problems when building packages that were exhibiting these warnings.