Anthony N. Frasso wrote: > I am running OpenBSD 3.3, and am trying to install autoconf. I have (I > think) successfully installed m4 1.4, but when I run the autoconf 2.59 > configuration script, I get the following output: > [...] > checking for m4... /usr/bin/m4 > checking whether m4 supports frozen files... no > configure: error: GNU M4 1.4 is required > > Did I install m4 incorrectly? Or is something else wrong? Where did you install m4? By default it will install in /usr/local/bin/m4. If you did not override it then that is where it is now located. But the above shows /usr/bin/m4 as being found first. That would normally be the system OpenBSD m4. What is your PATH? A normal path typically has /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin so that your local software installations will override what is in /usr/bin. But the above indicates that you are finding m4 in /usr/bin/m4 which is the system m4. Try putting /usr/local/bin ahead of /usr/bin in your PATH. Bob
