From: Keith Willoughby <keith@...222.org>
Date: 2003-08-25T22:51:25+09:00
Subject: Re: autoconf for 1.8.0


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On Llu, 2003-08-25 at 14:36, Jim Freeze wrote:
> On Monday, 25 August 2003 at 21:35:54 +0900, Keith Willoughby wrote:
> > On Llu, 2003-08-25 at 13:17, Jim Freeze wrote:
> > > While trying to install the stable version of Ruby
> > > I get the following messsage when running autoconf:
> > >=20
> > >  autoconf=20
> > >  Autoconf requires GNU m4 1.1 or later
> > >=20
> > > What is m4?
> > >=20
> > >  uname -a
> > >  SunOS juno 5.8 Generic_108528-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
> >=20
> > It's the Gnu macro processor (autoconf makes heavy use of macros)
> >=20
>=20
> Can you give me a URL to download the macros.
> I can't seem to find them on the gnu site.
> (I've found docs and text files, but no macros.)

It's the actual processor, rather than the macros.

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/m4/
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/m4=20

Going back to the beginning, though - are you sure you need to run
autoconf? Shouldn't ./configure && make be enough? Or are you building
it from CVS or something?

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Keith

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