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Re: Installation of autoconf and m4
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: Installation of autoconf and m4 |
Date: |
Tue, 2 Mar 2004 00:49:20 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.3.28i |
Anthony N. Frasso wrote:
> I am running OpenBSD 3.3, and am trying to install autoconf. I have (I
> think) successfully installed m4 1.4, but when I run the autoconf 2.59
> configuration script, I get the following output:
> [...]
> checking for m4... /usr/bin/m4
> checking whether m4 supports frozen files... no
> configure: error: GNU M4 1.4 is required
>
> Did I install m4 incorrectly? Or is something else wrong?
Where did you install m4? By default it will install in
/usr/local/bin/m4. If you did not override it then that is where it
is now located. But the above shows /usr/bin/m4 as being found first.
That would normally be the system OpenBSD m4.
What is your PATH? A normal path typically has /usr/local/bin before
/usr/bin so that your local software installations will override what
is in /usr/bin. But the above indicates that you are finding m4 in
/usr/bin/m4 which is the system m4.
Try putting /usr/local/bin ahead of /usr/bin in your PATH.
Bob