Re: autoconf complains wrongly about version of m4

[Matt Schalit]

David Kirkby wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>         I use automake and autoconf at home on my Sun SPARCstation with no
> problems.
> 
> However, I'm now trying to use autoconf 2.13 at work on an HP-UX system,
> with little success. Sorry I can't reproduce the exact error message
> (I'm not on the machine), but autoconf complains that it needs gnu m4,
> version 1.1 or greater. However, I've installed m4, version 1.4. typing
> m4 --version correctly identifies itself as version 1.4. To my knowledge
> there are no older versions of m4 around, but in any case, the version I
> want to use (1.4) is in the path, and 'which m4' indicates that the one
> I want is being picked up.
> 
> Any suggestions ?
> 
> --
> Dr. David Kirkby Ph.D,
> email: address@hidden
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Try:    ldd autoconf
Try:  setting your LD_LIBRARY_PATH 

Matt