On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 1:19 AM Collin Funk <collin.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Eric Gallager <eg...@gwmail.gwu.edu> writes: > > > Hi, I'm writing because I will occasionally see messages like the > > following from CI systems (specifically GitHub Actions' macOS runners) > > when they attempt to run autoconf: > > GitHub actions should have homebrew preinstalled which you can use to > get a recent version of GNU m4 [1] [2]. >
Yeah I tried installing it that way, but autoconf still insists on trying to use the one from Xcode anyways... > I assume there are probably more issues other than '--gnu' using the > preinstalled GNU programs on macOS. At least I remember the preinstalled > bash being ancient so I assume m4 is the same. > Yeah, Apple stopped updating it after the GPL3 license change, as they did with pretty much all of their packages that made the GPL2-to-GPL3 license transition... > Collin > > [1] > https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/macos/macos-12-Readme.md > [2] https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/m4
