bug ?

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Sat Jul 3 13:36:35 PDT 2004


On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:05:19PM +0200, Martin Schubert wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was just trying to play around with dragonfly and install mono.
> As mono depends on bison and bison depends among others on m4 I downloaded
> both (bison1875 / m4 1.4), installed m4 and tried to configure bison again.
> 
> I'm alway getting the following error:
> 
> ..
> checking for m4... /usr/bin/m4
> checking whether m4 supports frozen files... no
> configure: error: GNU M4 1.4 is required

Well, the short answer is that /usr/bin/m4 is not GNUware. It doesn't use
the right m4.

Joerg





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