Follow-up: On 01/23/2014 11:47 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
Just tried to compile coreutils from scratch, and encountered the following problem: === $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils $ cd coreutils $ ./bootstrap
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/usr/bin/m4: m4_esyscmd subprocess failed /usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:444: cannot open `m4/cu-progs.m4': No such file or directory autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 autopoint: *** Missing version: please specify in configure.ac through a line 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(x.yy.zz)' the gettext version the package is using autopoint: *** Stop. ===
Upgrading to autoconf version 2.69 and M4 version 1.4.17 solved this issue (but note that "bootstrap" required autoconf>=2.59 and I had 2.65 installed).
-Gordon
