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Date:      Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:06:06 +1100
From:      Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
To:        Joe Halpin <j.p.h@comcast.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.9-STABLE and m4
Message-ID:  <20040315040606.GB26211@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <4054D78F.6080003@comcast.net>
References:  <4054D78F.6080003@comcast.net>

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On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 04:07:11PM -0600, Joe Halpin wrote:

> I'm working with the cURL project (http://curl.haxx.se), and I setup a 
> daily build on my 4.9-RELEASE machine. Things were going fine until I 
> upgraded to 4.9-STABLE. At that point the daily builds started failing.
> 
> As far as I can tell the reason for that was that /usr/bin/m4 was 
> somehow different from the same version on the FSF web site. I 
> downloaded and built m4 from the FSF web site and installed it in 
> /usr/local/bin (which is at the beginning of my PATH) and then the build 
> started working again.
> 
> Can anyone here confirm or deny my hypothesis? Any information would be 
> welcome as I'd like to understand what happened.

FreeBSD does not use GNU m4.


Tim



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