-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Pickett on 2/2/2007 10:58 PM: > Hi, > > I'm not subscribed, please reply-all. > > I installed m4-1.4.8 locally. However, in order for auto(re)conf find > it, I have to do `export M4=$HOME/$MY_PREFIX/bin/m4' > > Otherwise, with an empty $M4, I get this error from /usr/bin/m4: > > /usr/bin/m4: `changeword' from frozen file not found in builtin table! Sounds like you build $HOME/$MY_PREFIX/bin/m4 with changeword support, but that your installed version of autoconf was built at a time when only an older m4 version at /usr/bin/m4 was available. The location of M4 is determined when you run ./configure on the autoconf tarball; if you want to use your newer m4 installation, but don't have root privileges to install it in the same places as where the existing autoconf is already looking, then I would suggest also configuring autoconf and installing it alongside m4 in $HOME/$MY_PREFIX/bin. > > Is this the right behaviour for some reason I don't know? Can the $PATH > be checked for m4 first? The PATH check occurs at ./configure time for autoconf, not at runtime during autom4te, as a runtime check would noticeably slow down autoconf and automake. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFxqf984KuGfSFAYARAusWAJwIE8rP4fkPXy7ZPJjbxc6J6eolvwCgqLdb 1neaYvJSP5AaRQRRNCrPh2M= =pOoY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
