Re: version number option

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Daniel Convissor wrote:
> Hi:

Hi Dan,

> m4 is missing a command line option for getting the version, such as -v 
> and/or --version.
>
> I came across this issue while trying to build curl on FreeBSD 5.4.  The 
> buildconf scirpt checks for m4 by doing "m4 --version".  It chokes at that 
> point.  So, it'd be really nice if both a -v and --version option could be 
> put in please.  The latter is the flag used by the other GNU build related 
> programs.

Works for me:

 $ m4 --version
 GNU m4 1.4.4
 $ ~/devel/savannah/m4-bsd/m4 --version
 /home/gary/devel/savannah/m4-bsd/m4: invalid option -- -
 usage: m4 [-gs] [-d flags] [-t macro] [-o file] [-Dname[=val]] [-Uname] [-I 
dirname...]

Looks like you don't have GNU m4 installed on that machine.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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