Re: Error making M4

[Eric Blake]

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According to Karl Jempty on 7/22/2008 6:34 PM:
| Hello I am getting these errors when doing a make check.
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| 5 of 36 tests failed

Thanks for the report.  Unfortunately, you snipped the interesting bit -
which tests failed; you also omitted any description of your system (which
OS, compiler, etc).  Furthermore, there are newer versions of m4 out
there.  Would you please try either m4 1.4.11, or a more recent snapshot?

http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.5.89a.31-d9538d.tar.gz
http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.5.89a.31-d9538d.tar.gz.asc
http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.5.89a.31-d9538d.tar.bz2
http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.5.89a.31-d9538d.tar.bz2.asc
http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.5.89a.31-d9538d.tar.lzma
http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.5.89a.31-d9538d.tar.lzma.asc

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| also when I do a make install i get this error:
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| test -z "/usr/local/bin" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/bin"
|   /usr/bin/install -c 'm4' '/usr/local/bin/m4'
| /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/m4':
Permission denied

What are the permissions on /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/bin/m4?  Do you
have permissions to install software for everyone on that machine?  If
not, then read INSTALL, which mentions using
~ './configure --prefix=/path/to/alternate/tree'
to allow you to install things for yourself when you don't have root
privileges for the entire machine.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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