On Monday 29 of June 2015 14:40:40 Krishnan Rajiyah wrote: > I have been trying to install automake, autoconf, and m4 on my > NetBSD-4.0.1-x68k system. As I understand from your website, automake > requires autoconf which requires m4 which requires perl.
Automake and autoconf projects require perl, not m4 AFAIK. > I havent installed perl yet, because I am getting errors saying that it > cant make built-in (still trying to find a way around this). > > However, the problem I had with m4 make was not with perl, it said that > automake-1.14 was missing from the system. This does not make sense since > that would mean that there would be a cycle in the dependency tree. Automake is not needed to build/install m4 from source tarball, neither perl is. If you made some changes in the files extracted from tarball before './configure && make', then you might need to re-automake the Makefile.in files however (and then you also need perl). $ which automake-1.14 perl 2>&1 | sed 's/ in .*//' /usr/bin/which: no automake-1.14 /usr/bin/which: no perl $ tar -xf m4-1.4.17.tar.xz $ cd m4-1.4.17/ $ ./configure && make ... $ echo $? 0 You haven't posted the steps (neither logs), so its hard to guess what is going on. > I am trying to install the latest version of autoconf (2012 release), > the latest version of m4 (2013 release), and the second latest verison > of automake (2013 release). > > Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong? Is your software even > compatible with a NetBSD-4.0.1-x68k system? I can't tell (maybe others can), but my guess (based on [1]) is that m4 should work for you. [1] ftp://ftp.se.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc-current/devel/m4/README.html Pavel
