Jason Curl wrote:
> I've just downloaded mingw-1.0.11, installed m4-1.4.12 and ActivePerl
> 5.10.0. When I run configure it succeeds, but building autoconf fails
> complaining about needing GNU m4 1.4 or later.
Activestate? That's most likely your problem. AS Perl can't cope with
POSIX path translation.
> I've made links to perl, removed the old version of m4 so there's only
Do you mean copies? Because again, these tools don't know links.
> 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
You asked ActiveState perl to run the autom4te perl script, which itself
proceded to attempt to invoke /usr/local/bin/m4, because that is the m4
that configure found. But AS Perl has no earthly how to translate
/usr/local/... into anything meaningful, because it is a plain Win32
program. You need MSYS perl that knows how to translate /usr/local/...
its actual Win32 path before invoking it.
You might also consider doing a VPATH style build.
Brian
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