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Subject: Re: What is gm4 and where can I get it?
In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.853799167.List@journeyman> from "Sean J. Schluntz" at "Jan 20, 97 02:24:27 pm"
To: schluntz@pinpt.com (Sean J. Schluntz)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 14:38:10 -0800 (PST)
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According to Sean J. Schluntz:
> > > I was attempting to make the GNATs port and got a STOP 2 because gm4 could 
> not 
> > > be found on the system.  I did not see it on the ports list and it did not 
> 
> > > come up on the two search options from the web page.   Where can I find 
> this 
> > > app and what is it? 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 	Oops: you said gm4.  It probably is looking for ``m4''.  
> > 	Check the makefile.  
> > 
> > 	gary
> > 
> > 	PS: gnats is most likely auto-configuring at any rate,
> > 	so it wouldn't hurt to pull down the entire tarball
> > 	from an archive site... .
> 
> You are right, it is looking for the GNU version of m4, I tried to make a ln 
> to m4 called gm4 and the gmake called it correctly, but it exited with a 
> 
> gm4 ./config.m4 ./config.c.in > config.c-t
> gm4: missing right quote
> 
> so I think I might have to track down the GNU m4 to get this to work.. :(
> 


		Glad you figured out what gnats needs.  It might
		benefit everybody to have the GNU m4 along with
		the BSD version.  Over the years, I've found 
		things from FSF strictly #1 top-rate.  

		The GNU m4 shouldn't be hard to find.  archie will
		point you at any number of archive sites.

		gary