Subject: Re: bug#36170: configure fails on FreeBSD

From: Roger Mason <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:22:14 -0230

Hello Mark,

Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]> writes:

> That's the latest stable m4 release, and the same version that I have.
> It's surprising that "m4 --version" failed.  It makes me wonder if
> autogen.sh is using Bash-specific syntax.

'm4 --version' fails on the command-line too:
m4: illegal option -- -

> Does "bash -x autogen.sh" work, when using the autogen.sh that we
> provide?

No, it still fails on 'm4 --version'.

Cheers,
Roger