Hello,
here are my commands:
cd m4-1.4.13/
mkdir target
cd target/
../configure --prefix=/usr/local
...
checking whether gettimeofday clobbers localtime buffer... yes
checking sys/timeb.h usability... no
checking sys/timeb.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: sys/timeb.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: sys/timeb.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: sys/timeb.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: sys/timeb.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: sys/timeb.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
configure: WARNING: ## ----------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to bug-m4@gnu.org ##
configure: WARNING: ## ----------------------------- ##
checking for sys/timeb.h... no
checking for _ftime... no
checking whether the compiler generally respects inline... yes
checking whether isnan(double) can be used without linking with libm... no
checking where to find the exponent in a 'double'... unknown
checking whether isnan(float) can be used without linking with libm... no
checking where to find the exponent in a 'float'... (cached) word 0 bit 23
checking whether isnan(long double) can be used without linking with libm... no
checking where to find the exponent in a 'long double'... unknown
checking for libsigsegv... (cached) no, consider installing GNU libsigsegv
checking whether lseek detects pipes... no
checking whether lstat dereferences a symlink specified with a
trailing slash... no
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... (cached) yes
checking whether NAN macro works... yes
checking whether HUGE_VAL works... yes
checking whether mbrtowc handles incomplete characters... no
checking whether mbrtowc works as well as mbtowc... no
checking whether mbrtowc handles incomplete characters... (cached) no
checking whether mbrtowc works as well as mbtowc... (cached) no
checking for mkdtemp... yes
checking for working mkstemp... no
checking for obstacks... no
checking whether open recognizes a trailing slash... no
checking paths.h usability... no
checking paths.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: paths.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: paths.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: paths.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: paths.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: paths.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
configure: WARNING: ## ----------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to bug-m4@gnu.org ##
configure: WARNING: ## ----------------------------- ##
checking for paths.h... no
checking for confstr... yes
checking for sched_setparam... yes
checking for sched_setscheduler... yes
checking for setegid... yes
checking for seteuid... yes
checking for vfork... yes
checking whether frexp can be used without linking with libm... (cached) no
checking whether ldexp can be used without linking with libm... no
checking whether frexpl can be used without linking with libm... (cached) no
checking whether ldexpl can be used without linking with libm... no
checking for rawmemchr... yes
checking for working re_compile_pattern... no
checking libintl.h usability... no
checking libintl.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: libintl.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: libintl.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: libintl.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: libintl.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: libintl.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
configure: WARNING: ## ----------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to bug-m4@gnu.org ##
configure: WARNING: ## ----------------------------- ##
checking for libintl.h... no
checking whether isblank is declared... no
checking for struct sched_param... no
checking for struct sigaction.sa_sigaction... no
checking for volatile sig_atomic_t... no
checking for signbit macro... no
checking for signbit compiler built-ins... no
checking where to find the sign bit in a 'float'... unknown
checking where to find the sign bit in a 'double'... unknown
checking where to find the sign bit in a 'long double'... unknown
checking whether copysignf is declared... yes
checking whether copysignf can be used without linking with libm... no
checking whether copysign is declared... yes
checking whether copysign can be used without linking with libm... no
checking whether copysignl is declared... yes
checking whether copysignl can be used without linking with libm... no
checking for sigprocmask... yes
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking for SIZE_MAX... yes
checking for snprintf... yes
checking whether snprintf respects a size of 1... no
checking for ssize_t... no
checking for va_copy... yes
checking whether stdint.h conforms to C99... no
checking sys/inttypes.h usability... no
checking sys/inttypes.h presence... no
checking for sys/inttypes.h... no
checking sys/bitypes.h usability... no
checking sys/bitypes.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: sys/bitypes.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: sys/bitypes.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: sys/bitypes.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: sys/bitypes.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: sys/bitypes.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
configure: WARNING: ## ----------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to bug-m4@gnu.org ##
configure: WARNING: ## ----------------------------- ##
checking for sys/bitypes.h... no
checking for bit size of ptrdiff_t... unknown
checking for bit size of size_t... unknown
checking for bit size of sig_atomic_t... unknown
checking for bit size of wchar_t... unknown
checking for bit size of wint_t... unknown
checking whether sig_atomic_t is signed... no
checking whether wchar_t is signed... no
checking whether wint_t is signed... no
checking for ptrdiff_t integer literal suffix... no
checking for size_t integer literal suffix... no
checking for sig_atomic_t integer literal suffix... no
checking for wchar_t integer literal suffix... no
checking for wint_t integer literal suffix... no
checking for random.h... no
checking for struct random_data... no
checking for strchrnul... yes
checking for working strndup... no
checking for working strnlen... no
checking for strsignal... yes
checking whether strsignal always returns a string... no
checking whether _sys_siglist is declared... no
checking whether strstr works in linear time... no
checking for working strtod... no
checking for pow... no
checking for pow in -lm... yes
checking for strtol... yes
checking for nlink_t... no
checking for __secure_getenv... yes
checking for ptrdiff_t... no
checking for snprintf... (cached) yes
checking for strnlen... yes
checking for wcslen... yes
checking for wcsnlen... yes
checking for mbrtowc... (cached) yes
checking for wcrtomb... (cached) yes
checking whether _snprintf is declared... no
checking for vasprintf... yes
checking for vasprintf... (cached) yes
checking for nl_langinfo... yes
checking for ptrdiff_t... (cached) no
checking for snprintf... (cached) yes
checking for strnlen... (cached) yes
checking for wcslen... (cached) yes
checking for wcsnlen... (cached) yes
checking for mbrtowc... (cached) yes
checking for wcrtomb... (cached) yes
checking whether _snprintf is declared... (cached) no
checking for waitid... yes
checking whether <wchar.h> is standalone... no
checking whether wcrtomb return value is correct... no
checking whether iswcntrl works... no
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking for a traditional french locale... (cached) fr_FR
checking for a french Unicode locale... (cached) fr_FR.UTF-8
checking where to find the exponent in a 'double'... (cached) unknown
checking where to find the exponent in a 'float'... (cached) word 0 bit 23
checking where to find the exponent in a 'long double'... (cached) unknown
checking for a traditional french locale... (cached) fr_FR
checking for a french Unicode locale... (cached) fr_FR.UTF-8
checking for a traditional japanese locale... (cached) ja_JP
checking for a transitional chinese locale... (cached) zh_CN.GB18030
checking for a french Unicode locale... (cached) fr_FR.UTF-8
checking for a traditional french locale... (cached) fr_FR
checking for a french Unicode locale... (cached) fr_FR.UTF-8
checking for wchar_t... (cached) yes
checking for wint_t... (cached) yes
checking for unsetenv... yes
checking for unsetenv() return type... void
checking for a traditional french locale... (cached) fr_FR
checking for a french Unicode locale... (cached) fr_FR.UTF-8
checking for a traditional japanese locale... (cached) ja_JP
checking for a transitional chinese locale... (cached) zh_CN.GB18030
checking whether wctob works... no
checking whether an open file can be renamed... no
checking if changeword is wanted... no
checking which shell to use for syscmd... /bin/sh
checking if malloc debugging is wanted... no
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
config.status: creating checks/Makefile
config.status: creating examples/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/config.h
config.status: lib/config.h is unchanged
config.status: linking ../GNUmakefile to GNUmakefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing stamp-h commands
then during make I receive following error messages that depend on
those configure errors, I suppose:
CC gl_avltree_oset.o
In file included from ../../lib/gl_oset.h:22,
from ../../lib/gl_avltree_oset.h:21,
from ../../lib/gl_avltree_oset.c:21:
/usr/local/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/include/stddef.h:214:
error: duplicate ”unsigned”
/usr/local/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/include/stddef.h:214:
error: two or more data types in declaration specifiers
In file included from /usr/include/stdlib.h:438,
from ./stdlib.h:34,
from ../../lib/gl_avltree_oset.c:23:
/usr/local/include/sys/types.h:77: error: two or more data types in
declaration specifiers
/usr/local/include/sys/types.h:110: error: two or more data types in
declaration specifiers
In file included from ./stdint.h:56,
from ./stdlib.h:52,
from ../../lib/gl_avltree_oset.c:23:
/usr/include/stdint.h:139: error: ”long long long” is too long for GCC
/usr/include/stdint.h:139: error: ”long long long” is too long for GCC
In file included from ../../lib/gl_avltree_oset.c:23:
./stdlib.h:57: error: redefinition of ”struct random_data”
make[4]: *** [gl_avltree_oset.o] Error 1
uname -a
Linux 2(xxx) 2.6.18.8-0.13-default #1 SMP Thu Nov 6 13:35:13 UTC 2008
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.3.4
I had no problem to build and install m4-1.4.8.tar.bz2 but after 1.4.9
I had problem like above.
I will email config.log to you only Eric with my next email.
best regards,
Jorma K.
2009/10/16, Eric Blake <e...@byu.net>:
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> According to Jorma Karvonen on 10/16/2009 12:07 PM:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I think that since version 1.4.9 there has been so called
>> Present-But-Cannot-Be-Compiled bug in m4 source code:
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Present-But-Cannot-Be-Compiled.html
>>
>> In my development environment I have autoconf 2.64 and error messages
>> are complaining that autoconf 2.61 is needed.
>
> Thanks for the report. However, without any details, such as the command
> you typed, what system you are on, and the actual error message displayed
> on the console as well as config.log detailing the failure, there is
> nothing I can do about it.
>
> - --
> Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
>
> Eric Blake e...@byu.net
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