Re: facing error making autoconf - make[3]: *** [m4sugar.m4f] Error 1

[Keith Marshall]

On Friday 30 May 2008 17:24, SUNIL NEGI wrote:
> autom4te: freezing produced output:
> make[3]: *** [m4sugar.m4f] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/snegi1/dlds/autoconf-2.62/lib/m4sugar' make[2]: ***
> [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/snegi1/dlds/autoconf-2.62/lib'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/snegi1/dlds/autoconf-2.62'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

Looks like you are using a native Win32 build of m4, rather than the one 
supplied with MSYS; that doesn't work.

> Doing perl --version on the command prompt tells me that the version
> is v5.6.1 built for msys.

Good; that's as it should be.

> I installed msys using "MSYS-1.0.10.exe"

You also need msysDTK, but if you use only the msysDTK-1.0.1 package, 
that installs only m4-1.4, which is too old.  However, the solution is 
*not* to go build a native m4 to replace it; you should install the 
m4-1.4.7 update, which you will find as a separate download, in the 
same place as the original package:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=67879&release_id=131044
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/m4-1.4.7-MSYS.tar.bz2

Regards,
Keith.