On Sat, 1 Jul 2023, philliprusso wrote:
I have:
checking for suitable m4... configure: error: No usable m4 in $PATH or
/usr/5bin (see config.log for reasons).
I don't quite get why I have to sudo ./configure or if I should be providing
options here for WSL2 version of Ubuntu 20.04.6 on the Windows Subsystem for
Linux. Anyone can help me to resolve this it is because I have to install
gcc-11 on Ubuntu WSL2 for a software package that needs it.
The error message is not "you failed, try some random other thing". It
explicitly tells you that it tried to find a program called m4 (which is
necessary for the build) and couldn't find it. So you need to install that
before you can build GMP.
Plugging this exact error message in a search engine leads to
https://stackoverflow.com/q/7902894/1918193 and many others.
Note that since this is Ubuntu, it would be easier to install pre-built
packages with
sudo apt install libgmp-dev
--
Marc Glisse
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