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autogen.sh fails on FreeBSD 9.1

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From: z_axis <z_axis <at> 163.com>
To: bug-guile <at> gnu.org
Subject: build newest guile on FreeBSD error
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:51:18 +0800

hi,friends
After `git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/guile.git`, `./autogen` reports:
m4: illegal option -- -
usage: m4 [-d flags] [-t name] [-gs] [-D name[=value]]...
       [-U name]... [-I dirname]... file...

on my FreeBSD 9.1 box.

Regards!

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: z_axis <z_axis <at> 163.com>
Cc: 16451 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16451: build newest guile on FreeBSD error
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:41:47 -0500

z_axis <z_axis <at> 163.com> writes:

> hi,friends
> After `git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/guile.git`, `./autogen` reports:
> m4: illegal option -- -
> usage: m4 [-d flags] [-t name] [-gs] [-D name[=value]]...
>        [-U name]... [-I dirname]... file...
>
> on my FreeBSD 9.1 box.

Following up on this: it turns out that the call to "m4 --version" in
autogen.sh is apparently the only problem here.

I suggested (on IRC) that he run "autoreconf -i --force --verbose" (the
only important thing in autogen.sh) and it seems to have worked properly
and created a working configure script.

Some other notes on FreeBSD, while the knowledge is fresh: On FreeBSD,
the "boehm-gc" package is compiled without threading support.  To
support threads, the "boehm-gc-threaded" package is needed, which
installs the library with a nonstandard name -lgc-threaded, so
BDW_GC_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -lgc-threaded" must be passed to
configure.

Maybe some of this should go into a README, but first I should ask:
z_axis: did these steps produce a working Guile on FreeBSD 9.1?

    Thanks,
      Mark

Message #17 received at 16451-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
To: 16451-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16451: build newest guile on FreeBSD error
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:44:00 +0200

No additional info; let's close.  Please file a new bug if you have
errors building Guile from git again.  Thanks!

Andy

On Wed 15 Jan 2014 19:41, Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> writes:

> z_axis <z_axis <at> 163.com> writes:
>
>> hi,friends
>> After `git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/guile.git`, `./autogen` reports:
>> m4: illegal option -- -
>> usage: m4 [-d flags] [-t name] [-gs] [-D name[=value]]...
>>        [-U name]... [-I dirname]... file...
>>
>> on my FreeBSD 9.1 box.
>
> Following up on this: it turns out that the call to "m4 --version" in
> autogen.sh is apparently the only problem here.
>
> I suggested (on IRC) that he run "autoreconf -i --force --verbose" (the
> only important thing in autogen.sh) and it seems to have worked properly
> and created a working configure script.
>
> Some other notes on FreeBSD, while the knowledge is fresh: On FreeBSD,
> the "boehm-gc" package is compiled without threading support.  To
> support threads, the "boehm-gc-threaded" package is needed, which
> installs the library with a nonstandard name -lgc-threaded, so
> BDW_GC_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -lgc-threaded" must be passed to
> configure.
>
> Maybe some of this should go into a README, but first I should ask:
> z_axis: did these steps produce a working Guile on FreeBSD 9.1?
>
>     Thanks,
>       Mark

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