autoconf for 1.8.0

[Jim Freeze]

While trying to install the stable version of Ruby
I get the following messsage when running autoconf:

autoconf
Autoconf requires GNU m4 1.1 or later

What is m4?

uname -a
SunOS juno 5.8 Generic_108528-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

 

[Keith Willoughby]

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While trying to install the stable version of Ruby
I get the following messsage when running autoconf:
=20
autoconf=20
Autoconf requires GNU m4 1.1 or later
=20
What is m4?
=20
uname -a
SunOS juno 5.8 Generic_108528-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

It's the Gnu macro processor (autoconf makes heavy use of macros)

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Keith Willoughby http://flat222.org/keith/=20
"I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly
what he did for a living." - Johnny Bench

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[Jim Freeze]

It's the Gnu macro processor (autoconf makes heavy use of macros)

Can you give me a URL to download the macros.
I can't seem to find them on the gnu site.
(I've found docs and text files, but no macros.)

 

[Keith Willoughby]

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Can you give me a URL to download the macros.
I can't seem to find them on the gnu site.
(I've found docs and text files, but no macros.)

It's the actual processor, rather than the macros.

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/m4/
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/m4=20

Going back to the beginning, though - are you sure you need to run
autoconf? Shouldn't ./configure && make be enough? Or are you building
it from CVS or something?

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