Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:59:50 -0800 (PST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net> To: Joe Halpin <j.p.h@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.9-STABLE and m4 Message-ID: <20040314225559.B52379@atlas.home> In-Reply-To: <4054D78F.6080003@comcast.net> References: <4054D78F.6080003@comcast.net>
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, 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. If you are working on code that depends on GNU-isms in m4, you will indeed need GNU m4. Install the port (devel/m4), and look at how other ports handle this requirement, for example autoconfuse^Wautoconf. $.02, /Mikko
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