Re: GUB3: M4 not accurately recognized?

[Patrick McCarty]

Hi Jan,

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 01:49:52PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Op woensdag 15-04-2009 om 00:51 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Patrick
> McCarty:
> 
> > I am trying to build a mingw LilyPond installer, but I am running into
> > a problem at the tools::bison configure stage.
> > 
> > It seems that the GUB-installed M4 is not being recognized as GNU M4
> > >= 1.4.  The end of the config.log:
> 
> Interesting.  So, *both* of your M4's are not recognized.
> 
> Building tools::bison using either /bin/m4 or tools::m4 works for me.
> 
> You should check the relevant config.log snippet and investigate
> why configure's check fails.

I got this working by uninstalling GNU libsigsegv from my system.
There appears to be a problem with M4's configure, but I couldn't
figure it out.

I can now do

$ bin/gub tools::m4 && bin/gub tools::bison

without a problem.


Thanks,
Patrick