On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:17:25PM +0200, Dani Mezher wrote: ... > I am building autoconf-2.56 on a FreeBSD-4.7 system. I > installed GNU M4 1.4 but the configure script crashes with an error GNU > M4 1.4 is required. U can see the output of the configure script. ... > checking for m4... /usr/bin/m4
/usr/bin/m4 is the m4 that comes with BSD - I assume you didn't replace it.. So, do you have a /usr/local/bin/m4? In which case renaming it to /usr/local/bin/gm4 might help. (I usually use --program-prefix=g when configuring gnu m4 in the first place) Cheers, Patrick