facing error making autoconf - make[3]: *** [m4sugar.m4f] Error 1

[SUNIL NEGI]

Hi.
I am facing problems compiling autoconf with the make command on msys.
My problem is very similar to the one at
http://readlist.com/lists/lists.sourceforge.net/mingw-msys/0/573.html
But the solution is not in sight.


On running make, the script ends with the last few lines as:

make[3]: Entering directory
`/home/snegi1/dlds/autoconf-2.62/lib/m4sugar'
autom4te_perllibdir='../..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../../lib/autom4te.cfg'
../../bin/autom4te -B '../..'/lib -B '../..'/lib
\
        --language=m4sugar                      \
        --freeze                        \
        --output=m4sugar.m4f
autom4te: freezing produced output:
make[3]: *** [m4sugar.m4f] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/snegi1/dlds/autoconf-2.62/lib/m4sugar'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/snegi1/dlds/autoconf-2.62/lib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/snegi1/dlds/autoconf-2.62'
make: *** [all] Error 2


There were a lot of empty lines after "freezing produced output", but I
got rid of them by changing \n to \r in
Bin/autom4te.in (I read somewhere that this should fix the issue - but
it did not help).

Doing perl --version on the command prompt tells me that the version is
v5.6.1 built for msys.

I installed msys using "MSYS-1.0.10.exe"

I have also tried creating an environment variable M4=m4. Did not help,
though.

Any ideas? Or even pointers to where I should be asking this question,
if not here.

TIA,
Sunil
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