4.9-STABLE and m4

[Mikko Työläjärvi]

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