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

[Richard Sinclair]

I successfully compiled and installed 1.4.17 in osx yosemite /usr/local.

After redirecting the installer to this version of m4/gm4 I made
successful compilation if the php extension in OSX yosemite.

The development/production platform and I think unspoken/intended platform
for the extension I compiled is ubuntu 14.04LTS.

The use of option -gnu is not possible in GNU M4 1.4.6 (The version OS X
Yosemite uses).

Thank you.

On 01/04/2015 15:18, "Richard Sinclair" <address@hidden> wrote:

>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/
>>
>>-- 
>>Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
>>Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>>
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