Dan Kegel wrote:
You may need this commit, which was after 4.1, if I read git history correctly:
commit 292da6f6867b75a5af7ddbb639a1feae022f438f
Author: Paul Smith
Date: Mon Oct 20 01:54:56 2014 -0400
* main.c (main): [SV 43434] Handle NULL returns from ttyname().
Try getting the latest fr
> On 20 Oct 2015, at 20:47, Mark Galeck wrote:
>
> Dan Kegel wrote:
> You may need this commit, which was after 4.1, if I read git history
> correctly:
>
> commit 292da6f6867b75a5af7ddbb639a1feae022f438f
> Author: Paul Smith
> Date: Mon Oct 20 01:54:56 2014 -0400
>
>* main.c (main): [SV
> On 20 Oct 2015, at 20:47, Mark Galeck wrote:
>
> Well, if I persist and try
>
>> autoreconf -i
> again, it gives the warning as above but no more error. (??) I can then do
> ./configure , but then
>
>> make
>
> fails to build.
There’s a ‘make update’ there that you may have missed. It
> configure.ac:45: warning: macro `AM_PROG_AR' not found in library
> configure.ac:45: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_AR
> If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> See the Autoconf documentation.
> autoreconf: //bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
OK I was able to recompile Make 4.1 from git, successfully, without
docs/translations as you have suggested. However, there may be a problem with
the tests. Here is what I did for the record:
install the latest version of gettext GNU package, in non-default location to
overwrite the old insta
