Re: help building autoconf

[Eric Blake]

On 08/19/2013 06:02 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to build autoconf 2.69, needed for another package.
> Configure works OK. In the make stage I get an error:
> 
> autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg'
> ../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib         --language M4sh --cache ''
> --melt ./autoconf.as -o autoconf.in
> autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later:
> /global/homes/d/dmitryp/m4-1.4.16/install/bin
> 
> I have actually built M4 version 1.4.16 and defined environment variable M4
> as the location. Surprised that autom4te cannot find it, or cannot
> seem to know that it is version 1.4.
> Typing autom4te --version gives the following:
> autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later:
> /global/homes/d/dmitryp/m4-1.4.16/install/bin

I'm guessing you installed your just-built m4 as
/global/homes/d/dmitryp/m4-1.4.16/install/bin/m4?  Are you exporting $M4
in your current environment, or just when you ran configure?  What does
'm4 --version' and '$M4 --version' say?  It looks like it is just a case
of you not completely setting up your environment, but I'm not quite
sure with the information you've presented here where you are going wrong.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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