Re: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/gm4: unrecognized option `--gnu'

[Richard Sinclair]

The version is GNU M4 1.4.6. Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation,
Inc. I’ve reported this on the phalcon forum and awaiting response. They
are fans of brew and macports which I am trying to steer away from. They
have previously stated one of their dev team using OS X to build.

I’m questioning my reasoning for OS X as I write. I’ll see if I can get a
hand from the OS X dev community. It is likely this version of m4 goes
back to OS X mavericks or even back to snow leopard.


Thanks for the link! I’ll go right ahead and give that a try too.

Am thanking you.

On 01/04/2015 15:01, "Eric Blake" <address@hidden> wrote:

>On 04/01/2015 07:53 AM, Richard Sinclair wrote:
>> I am making an attempt in compiling phalcon.so
>> <https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon>  version 1.3.4.
>> 
>> During config I get:
>> 
>> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/gm4: unrecognized option
>>`--gnu'
>
>What version of m4 is that?  gm4 --version would say.  --gnu was added
>in 1.4.12.  You may also want to report your problem to the phalcon
>folks, in case they are interested in supporting older m4 versions.
>
>> 
>> I believe the dev originals must have used something like ubuntu to
>>compile
>> this and not osx yosemite.
>
>I don't use OS X (not free software), so I can't say for sure, but I
>suspect there are pre-built versions of newer m4 for your platform.
>
>> 
>> Could you recommend a version of m4 I could install into OS X yosemite
>>that
>> would recognise the option Œ‹gnu¹.
>
>You could always build it yourself; 1.4.17 is here:
>http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/
>
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