bug#16530: Bootstrapping fails with missing "m4/cu-progs.m4"

[Assaf Gordon]

Follow-up:

On 01/23/2014 11:47 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Just tried to compile coreutils from scratch, and encountered the following
> problem:
> ===
> $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils
> $ cd coreutils
> $ ./bootstrap
<...snip...>
> /usr/bin/m4: m4_esyscmd subprocess failed
> /usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:444: cannot open `m4/cu-progs.m4': No such file or
> directory
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> autopoint: *** Missing version: please specify in configure.ac through a
> line 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(x.yy.zz)' the gettext version the package is
> using
> autopoint: *** Stop.
> ===

Upgrading to autoconf version 2.69 and M4 version 1.4.17 solved this 
issue (but note that "bootstrap" required autoconf>=2.59 and I had 2.65 
installed).

-Gordon