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Date:      Fri, 10 May 2002 11:24:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Silver <dsilver@urchin.com>
To:        Yamini Patri <yamini_patri@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installation of GNU autoconf in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205101121550.11032-100000@danzig.sd.quantified.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020510180956.36924.qmail@web13001.mail.yahoo.com>

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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. 
> 
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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.

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Doug Silver
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Urchin Corporation	http://www.urchin.com
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