GNU bug report logs - #36170
configure fails on FreeBSD

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Roger Mason <rmason <at> mun.ca>

Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 14:14:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: Roger Mason <rmason <at> mun.ca>
Cc: 36170 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36170: configure fails on FreeBSD
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:41:09 -0400

Roger Mason <rmason <at> mun.ca> writes:

> I cloned the git repo yesterday (2019-06-10, most recent commit
> 8d469660525d74734f3184cb9ed01b6f2dcd0445).  I ran autogen.sh in the
> source directory.  I had to comment out the call to m4 --version, which
> failed (I have m4-1.4.18).

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.

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

      Mark
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