Problems installing M4 on windows 7

2020-04-19 Thread Ove Fagerheim
Hello I'm trying to install M4 on windows 7, but need to compile it first. From a Git bash cli i run: ' ./configure; make; make install'. The configure process runs all kinds of tests, it ends up in an error, 'make: command not found' Last output was config.status: creating lib/config.h config.

Re: Problems installing M4 on windows 7

2020-04-19 Thread Doug McIlroy
It's hard to conceive how you got bash bu not make. Try "which make". If that comes up dry, get a copy of make from wherever you got bash. If it says you have make, then you have a strange $PATH, or the install script is playing with it. The latter is unlikely in an ordinary gnu install such as yo

Re: Problems installing M4 on windows 7

2020-04-19 Thread spaceman
Hi Ove, Ove Fagerheim wrote: > > bash: make: command not found > bash: make: command not found > You need to install GNU make. I am not certain that GNU M4 will run on Git bash (never tried). You might need to use cygwin instead. Regards, spaceman

Re: Problems installing M4 on windows 7

2020-04-19 Thread Dave Bucklin
On April 19, 2020 3:18:06 PM CDT, spaceman wrote: >Hi Ove, > >Ove Fagerheim wrote: >> >> bash: make: command not found >> bash: make: command not found >> > >You need to install GNU make. > >I am not certain that GNU M4 will run on Git bash (never tried). You >might need to use cygwin inste