Re: About installation

[zhang yan]

hello Eric,
I download the m4-1.4.12.16-307f from the site you gave, and ./configure, make, make check  these three steps can be executed successfully, but  there still is an error for command "make install".
Can you help me?
Thanks again.

Best regards,

Yan

joy[zhang]: make install
make  install-recursive
Making install in .
Making install in examples
Making install in lib
make  install-recursive
test no != no || /bin/bash /home/zhang/ProgramFiles/m4-1.4.12.16-307f/build-aux/install-sh -d /usr/local/lib
if test -f /usr/local/lib/charset.alias; then \
  sed -f ref-add.sed /usr/local/lib/charset.alias > /usr/local/lib/charset.tmp ; \
  ../build-aux/install-sh -c -m 644 /usr/local/lib/charset.tmp /usr/local/lib/charset.alias ; \
  rm -f /usr/local/lib/charset.tmp ; \
else \
  if test no = no; then \
    sed -f ref-add.sed charset.alias > /usr/local/lib/charset.tmp ; \
    ../build-aux/install-sh -c -m 644 /usr/local/lib/charset.tmp /usr/local/lib/charset.alias ; \
    rm -f /usr/local/lib/charset.tmp ; \
  fi ; \
fi
bash: line 6: /usr/local/lib/charset.tmp: Permission denied
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-exec-local'
Current working directory /home/zhang/ProgramFiles/m4-1.4.12.16-307f/lib
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
make  install-exec-am install-data-am
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-am'
Current working directory /home/zhang/ProgramFiles/m4-1.4.12.16-307f/lib
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
failcom='exit 1'; \
for f in x $MAKEFLAGS; do \
  case $f in \
    *=* | --[!k]*);; \
    *k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \
  esac; \
done; \
dot_seen=no; \
target=`echo install-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \
list=''; for subdir in $list; do \
  echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \
  if test "$subdir" = "."; then \
    dot_seen=yes; \
    local_target="$target-am"; \
  else \
    local_target="$target"; \
  fi; \
  (CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd $subdir && make  $local_target) \
  || eval $failcom; \
done; \
if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \
  make  "$target-am" || exit 1; \
fi; test -z "$fail"
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-recursive'
Current working directory /home/zhang/ProgramFiles/m4-1.4.12.16-307f/lib
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install'
Current working directory /home/zhang/ProgramFiles/m4-1.4.12.16-307f/lib
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
failcom='exit 1'; \
for f in x $MAKEFLAGS; do \
  case $f in \
    *=* | --[!k]*);; \
    *k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \
  esac; \
done; \
dot_seen=no; \
target=`echo install-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \
list='. examples lib src doc checks tests'; for subdir in $list; do \
  echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \
  if test "$subdir" = "."; then \
    dot_seen=yes; \
    local_target="$target-am"; \
  else \
    local_target="$target"; \
  fi; \
  (CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd $subdir && make  $local_target) \
  || eval $failcom; \
done; \
if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \
  make  "$target-am" || exit 1; \
fi; test -z "$fail"
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-recursive'
Current working directory /home/zhang/ProgramFiles/m4-1.4.12.16-307f
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install'

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

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According to zhang yan on 1/21/2009 12:57 PM:
> hello,

Hello, and thanks for the report.

> strtod.c: In function `rpl_strtod':
> strtod.c:155: error: incompatible types in assignment
> strtod.c:170: error: incompatible types in assignment
> strtod.c:257: error: wrong type argument to unary minus
>

> would you please tell me why there is a fatal error? how can I run this
> command successfully?

Upgrade to m4 1.4.12, or even try out our latest snapshot in preparation
for m4 1.4.13; this particular bug was probably fixed in the meantime.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-m4/2009-01/msg00008.html

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