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Re: version number option
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Gary V. Vaughan |
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Re: version number option |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:03:46 +0000 |
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Daniel Convissor wrote:
Hi Gary:
Hallo Dan,
[Putting bug-m4 back in Cc: -- someone else may search the archives to solve
the same problem in future]
$ m4 --version
GNU m4 1.4.4
$ ~/devel/savannah/m4-bsd/m4 --version
/home/gary/devel/savannah/m4-bsd/m4: invalid option -- -
usage: m4 [-gs] [-d flags] [-t macro] [-o file] [-Dname[=val]] [-Uname]
[-I dirname...]
Looks like you don't have GNU m4 installed on that machine.
But when I do
pkg_info -x 'm4*'
it says, among other things,
m4-1.4.3
GNU m4
I'm not familiar with the BSD ports system, so I'm afraid I can't really
help you with that part.
Your test indicates you have two versions of m4 there. The first being
"GNU m4 1.4.4". The second output from you're getting, from
"~/devel/savannah/m4-bsd/m4 --version", seems similar to the output I was
getting. Did you just go get that m4-bsd for testing, or did you already
have that laying around?
I am the maintainer of GNU m4, so I had the BSD binary lying around from
some compatibility tests I was doing a year or so ago (at that time I
went and got the m4-bsd sources and built it myself).
So it seems the porting m4 to BSD got messed up.
Or your PATH? Where does BSD ports put its packages? For darwinports,
everything is below /opt/local, and I have to add /opt/local/bin near
the start of my path to get the GNU versions of various tools.
Thanks,
--Dan
HTH,
Gary.
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