Installing Autoconf 2.63 on MinGW

[Jason Curl]

Hello,

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.

I've made links to perl, removed the old version of m4 so there's only 
one and there's no change. It's quite a bother to switch between cygwin 
and mingw all the time.

$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether /bin/sh -n is known to work... yes
checking for expr... /bin/expr
checking for GNU M4 that supports accurate traces... /usr/local/bin/m4
checking how m4 supports trace files... --debugfile
checking for perl... /c/Perl/bin/perl
checking for emacs... no
checking for xemacs... no
checking for emacs... no
checking where .elc files should go... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking whether make is case sensitive... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/atlocal
config.status: creating man/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/emacs/Makefile
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Autom4te/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/autoscan/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/m4sugar/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/autoconf/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/autotest/Makefile
config.status: creating bin/Makefile
config.status: executing tests/atconfig commands

address@hidden ~/install/autoconf-2.63
$ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jcurl/install/autoconf-2.63'
Making all in bin
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jcurl/install/autoconf-2.63/bin'
rm -f autom4te autom4te.tmp
srcdir=''; \
 test -f ./autom4te.in || srcdir=./; \
 sed -e 's|@address@hidden|/bin/sh|g' -e 's|@address@hidden|/c/Perl/bin/perl|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|/usr/local/bin|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|/usr/local/share/autoconf|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|/usr/local|g' -e 's|@address@hidden|'`echo autoconf | 
sed 's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 's|@address@hidden|'`echo autoheader | sed 
's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 's|@address@hidden|'`echo autom4te | sed 
's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 's|@address@hidden|/usr/local/bin/m4|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|--debugfile|g' -e 's|@address@hidden|gawk|g' -e 
's|@address@hidden|'`sed 's/^\([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\).*/\1/;q' 
../ChangeLog`'|g' -e 's|@address@hidden|2.63|g' -e 's|@address@hidden|GNU 
Autoconf|g' -e 's|@address@hidden|Generated from autom4te.in; do not 
edit by hand.|g' ${srcdir}autom4te.in >autom4te.tmp
chmod +x autom4te.tmp
chmod a-w autom4te.tmp
mv autom4te.tmp autom4te
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
make[2]: *** [autoconf.in] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jcurl/install/autoconf-2.63/bin'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jcurl/install/autoconf-2.63'
make: *** [all] Error 2

address@hidden ~/install/autoconf-2.63
$ m4 --version
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.12
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Rene' Seindal.