On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Jim Jagielski wrote: | According to the autoconf docs: | | Autoconf requires GNU `m4' in order to generate the scripts. It | uses features that some UNIX versions of `m4' do not have. It also | overflows internal limits of some versions of `m4', including GNU `m4' | 1.0. You must use version 1.1 or later of GNU `m4'. Using version 1.3 | or later will be much faster than 1.1 or 1.2. | | Not sure how really true or relevant that is right now...
Things that were written with GNU m4 in mind have always blown up when I tried using Solaris's /usr/ccs/bin/m4 instead. I think one of the things the GNU autoconf ./configure script checks for is a working GNU m4, so having the wrong version of m4 on your system and using autoconf would be a hard thing to accomplish, me thinks, unless the autoconf one is using is from a package that didnt check for the right m4 itself. /dale
