On 2014/10/19 08:09, Kenneth Westerback wrote:
> On 19 October 2014 07:29, R . wrote:
> > i know that m4 comes bundled together as part of the OS and typically only
> > gets built every build of OpenBSD, but is there a way to compile just the
> > m4 under MinGW?? i only need the binaries, no need for the manuals or
> > things like that.
> >
>
> I would think
>
> 1) Get the source tree.
> 2) cd /usr/src/usr.bin/m4
> 3) make clean; make obj; make
> 4) take your obj/m4 to wherever it needs to go.
>
> is sufficient. I ignore any complications due to trying this under
> MinGW since I still have nightmares from my brief exposure to it.
>
> Ken
>
This isn't a complete method, but in general both ports and the
base OS should honour CC in the environment, so you can use this to
select a different compiler.
