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Re: installation of automake, autoconf, m4 error
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Pavel Raiskup |
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Re: installation of automake, autoconf, m4 error |
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Wed, 01 Jul 2015 14:51:27 +0200 |
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On Monday 29 of June 2015 14:40:40 Krishnan Rajiyah wrote:
> I have been trying to install automake, autoconf, and m4 on my
> NetBSD-4.0.1-x68k system. As I understand from your website, automake
> requires autoconf which requires m4 which requires perl.
Automake and autoconf projects require perl, not m4 AFAIK.
> I havent installed perl yet, because I am getting errors saying that it
> cant make built-in (still trying to find a way around this).
>
> However, the problem I had with m4 make was not with perl, it said that
> automake-1.14 was missing from the system. This does not make sense since
> that would mean that there would be a cycle in the dependency tree.
Automake is not needed to build/install m4 from source tarball, neither
perl is. If you made some changes in the files extracted from tarball
before './configure && make', then you might need to re-automake the
Makefile.in files however (and then you also need perl).
$ which automake-1.14 perl 2>&1 | sed 's/ in .*//'
/usr/bin/which: no automake-1.14
/usr/bin/which: no perl
$ tar -xf m4-1.4.17.tar.xz
$ cd m4-1.4.17/
$ ./configure && make
...
$ echo $?
0
You haven't posted the steps (neither logs), so its hard to guess what is
going on.
> I am trying to install the latest version of autoconf (2012 release),
> the latest version of m4 (2013 release), and the second latest verison
> of automake (2013 release).
>
> Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong? Is your software even
> compatible with a NetBSD-4.0.1-x68k system?
I can't tell (maybe others can), but my guess (based on [1]) is that m4
should work for you.
[1]
ftp://ftp.se.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc-current/devel/m4/README.html
Pavel
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