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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



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