Jason Curl wrote: > I've just downloaded mingw-1.0.11, installed m4-1.4.12 and ActivePerl > 5.10.0. When I run configure it succeeds, but building autoconf fails > complaining about needing GNU m4 1.4 or later. Activestate? That's most likely your problem. AS Perl can't cope with POSIX path translation. > I've made links to perl, removed the old version of m4 so there's only Do you mean copies? Because again, these tools don't know links. > autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg' > ../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib --language M4sh --cache > '' --melt ./autoconf.as -o autoconf.in > The system cannot find the path specified. > autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /usr/local/bin/m4 You asked ActiveState perl to run the autom4te perl script, which itself proceded to attempt to invoke /usr/local/bin/m4, because that is the m4 that configure found. But AS Perl has no earthly how to translate /usr/local/... into anything meaningful, because it is a plain Win32 program. You need MSYS perl that knows how to translate /usr/local/... its actual Win32 path before invoking it. You might also consider doing a VPATH style build. Brian _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
