Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 14:38:10 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: schluntz@pinpt.com (Sean J. Schluntz) Cc: schluntz@pinpt.com, kline@tera.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is gm4 and where can I get it? Message-ID: <199701202238.OAA06926@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.853799167.List@journeyman> from "Sean J. Schluntz" at "Jan 20, 97 02:24:27 pm"
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According to Sean J. Schluntz: > > > I was attempting to make the GNATs port and got a STOP 2 because gm4 could > not > > > be found on the system. I did not see it on the ports list and it did not > > > > come up on the two search options from the web page. Where can I find > this > > > app and what is it? > > > > > > > > > > Oops: you said gm4. It probably is looking for ``m4''. > > Check the makefile. > > > > gary > > > > PS: gnats is most likely auto-configuring at any rate, > > so it wouldn't hurt to pull down the entire tarball > > from an archive site... . > > You are right, it is looking for the GNU version of m4, I tried to make a ln > to m4 called gm4 and the gmake called it correctly, but it exited with a > > gm4 ./config.m4 ./config.c.in > config.c-t > gm4: missing right quote > > so I think I might have to track down the GNU m4 to get this to work.. :( > Glad you figured out what gnats needs. It might benefit everybody to have the GNU m4 along with the BSD version. Over the years, I've found things from FSF strictly #1 top-rate. The GNU m4 shouldn't be hard to find. archie will point you at any number of archive sites. gary
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