Re: GMP on OSX errors

[Kevin Ryde]

glenbo <address@hidden> writes:
>
> well I got the latest version of GNU m4 installed and working (much to my 
> surprise ;> ), and that caron seemed to be gone when running 'm4 
> ../config.m4'. So I did a basic './configure; make' and it worked
> perfectly, which is good. 8)

Excellent.

> then 'ranlib .libs/libgmp.a' worked! Then 'make check' passed all 1
> tests.

It does more than 1 of course, it's just 1 in the last directory!

> 'make install' was a breeze after that. Whew big sigh of relief. My next
> step would have been to try and figure out exactly what you were asking me
> to try below.

Just to make three tiny files with those fragments of code and put
them through m4 (one at a time) to see if any of them also provoke the
caron.

If we've got something bad in our macros then we want to fix them, or
if your m4 is somehow evil then we might like to detect that in the
configure script.