Can m4 be built without automake?

[Gang Chen]

Hi,

I'm trying to build m4 on my zos-uss system, but run into the error below after I run './configure' and started 'make'. It seems that automake is required to build m4, while automake requires autoconf and autoconf requires m4. Is that a deadlock?

make  all-recursive

Making all in .

CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh /plex/gordonc/work/m4-1.4.17/build-aux/missing aclocal-1.14 -I m4

aclocal-1.14: /plex/gordonc/work/m4-1.4.17/build-aux/missing 81: FSUM7351 not found

WARNING: 'aclocal-1.14' is missing on your system.

         You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or

         'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.

         The 'aclocal' program is part of the GNU Automake package:

         <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>

         It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:

         <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>

         <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>

         <http://www.perl.org/>

FSUM8226 make: Error code 127

FSUM8226 make: Error code 1

FSUM8226 make: Error code 255

Thanks,

Gordon