Re: Problems with M4

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 07:50:25PM +0200, Nir Idisis wrote:
> The M4 I installed was the one I found at ftp.gnu.org...
> Though, I'm running OpenBSD... so it might be it...

> > >  checking for m4... /usr/bin/m4
> > >  checking whether m4 supports frozen files... no
> > >  configure: error: GNU M4 1.4 is required

another guess: 
perhaps /usr/bin/m4 is your BSD m4, and the newly installed GNU m4
is somewhere else.  Where is the GNU m4 installed?

What does /usr/bin/m4 --version say?

If it is installed in /usr/local/bin, and it is not in your path
before /usr/bin, then the configure script finds the BSD m4 first.

I think the configure script might look for gm4, gnum4, and then m4.

So it could help if you created a symlink gnum4 -> m4 or gm4 -> m4

HTH,
        Stepan