Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes: > > Brand new system, that almost works (insert a few sore points with > > vendor that builds a dual athlon with 4 15krpm drives and doesn't > > understand how to cool it!). Still, it's a fresh install of the stable > > branch of FreeBSD. It shouldn't be measurably different from the > > laptop I'm writing this from--though the laptop has more linux > > compatibility stuff installed at the moment. > > I think you need gnu m4.
"m4" ships with FreeBSD systems, but is not GNU-ish enough. Installing the (additional) FreeBSD package m4, also installs gm4. This works fine with ./autogen.sh, which detects gm4 before it checks for m4. So "gm4" is used. However, in lib/Makefile.am, "M4=m4" is hardcoded (line 7). So this is causing trouble on FreeBSD systems! lib/Makefile.am needs to be modified, so it uses the right (g)m4, as it is detected by autogen.sh. Regards, Rob.
