On 09/19/2010 12:22 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
I thought that it would be useful to have working autotools under MinGW
(MSYS shell environment) but autoconf 2.67 fails to build. This is with
/usr/local/bin/m4 being GNU m4 1.4.15.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/bfriesen/mingw/autoconf-2.67/lib/m4sugar'
autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg'
../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib --language M4sh --cache ''
--melt ./autoconf.as -o autoconf.in
The system cannot find the path specified.
autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /usr/local/bin/m4
Could this be a problem with trying to find a program with a trailing CR in
the name (that is, looking for m4\r instead of m4)? Also, are you setting
the M4 environment variable?