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Re: GNU autoconf : trouble compiling the package
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: GNU autoconf : trouble compiling the package |
Date: |
07 Nov 2000 14:57:09 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) |
| First, I've installed m4 version 1.4.
| Then i've configured autoconf (run configure tool)
| Then i've launched make tha issues the following error :
|
| "Error: Autoconf requires GNU m4 1.1 or later
| make: *** [autoconf.m4f] Error 1"
|
| I've made sure the m4 used is the right one (that's to say the one
| installed just before) : /usr/local/bin/m4
|
| mitsu39 : /export/home/gnu/autoconf-2.13 )what /usr/local/bin/m4
| /usr/local/bin/m4:
| SunOS 5.6 Generic August 1997
As stated by the error message, Autoconf wants *GNU* M4, and you
appear to give it Sun's M4. So it complains.
1. install GNU M4.
2. configure Autoconf with
M4=/path/to/gnu/m4 ./configure