Installing Autoconf 2.63 on MinGW

2008-12-07 Thread 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.

Re: Installing Autoconf 2.63 on MinGW

2008-12-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Jason Curl wrote: > 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. Activestate? That's most likely your problem. AS Perl can't cope with POSIX path tra

Re: Installing Autoconf 2.63 on MinGW

2008-12-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jason Curl on 12/7/2008 12:27 PM: > 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.