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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 36170 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Roger Mason <rmason <at> mun.ca>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: Roger Mason <rmason <at> mun.ca>, 36170 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36170: configure fails on FreeBSD
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:22:14 -0230

Hello Mark,

Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> 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
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