From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 10 11:24:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.quantified.com (ns2.quantified.com [63.212.171.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56BC837B40A for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 11:24:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from danzig.sd.quantified.net (web.quantified.com [63.212.171.5]) by mail.quantified.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g4AIOXiS072791; Fri, 10 May 2002 11:24:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dsilver@urchin.com) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:24:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Silver X-Sender: dsilver@danzig.sd.quantified.net To: Yamini Patri Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation of GNU autoconf in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20020510180956.36924.qmail@web13001.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Filter-Version: 1.7 (mail.quantified.com) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 May 2002, Yamini Patri wrote: > Greetings: > > I am trying to install autoconf 2.53 on FreeBSD for > which GNU's M4 1.4 is required. So, I installed GNU's > M4. As far as I can see there is no problem in the > installation of M4 1.4. But when I go back to install > autoconf I get an error message saying that GNU M4 is > required. I am not able to figure out why this is > happening and I am completely new to FreeBSD. I would > greatly appreciate your pointers about this. > > Thanks for your help, > > Regards, > Yamini. > > __________________________________________________ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > If you're not using it, I would strongly urge you to use the "ports" system. It makes installation and maintenance of software packages like this ridiculously easy. You will need to install latest cvsup package and run cvsup on the ports-supfile. Check the handbook for better details. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Corporation http://www.urchin.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message