Re: Detecting (g)m4

[Hans Aberg]

On 16 Jul 2009, at 09:20, Akim Demaille wrote:

> > Maybe not quite a bug, and maybe not your fault, but configure
> > apparently picks the first program called "gm4" in my path, >not<
> > the first appropriate m4 or gm4.

> You are right, of course.  But it's more efforts to look for the  
> "best" m4 around, so improvements, unless contributed by some  
> devoted user (read my mind ;), are unlikely to be made soon.   
> Especially because I see no existing Autoconf macro to address this  
> issue.  Maybe Autoconf itself has one (after all it is probably the  
> most demanding M4 application).

This was discussed with a bug long time ago. It think may have been  
changed. So make sure that Autoconf is up-to-date.

  Hans