I have posted the output right after the last piece..... It is seems to be installing an older version of m4 as you suggested because it could not use the newer one because of a problem with a gnu package of some sort:
https://paste.debian.net/1085999/ Comments appreciated. Regards MF On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:38, Fabian Groffen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Michael, > > Just to elaborate a bit. There is a newer version of m4, that is > attempted first. However, newer versions of GNU software now require > the xz decompressor to unpack. In your scenario, an old version of m4 > is being compiled. One of the reasons for choosing an older version is > because of not being able to unpack the newer versions due to lack of > xz. Odd though, as the latest m4 (1.4.18) is also available as .gz and > bz2. > > We'd need a larger part of the stage1 log to see why the newer versions > didn't work. > > Fabian > > > On 04-06-2019 11:10:47 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:01, Fabian Groffen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Can you confirm you don't have xz tool available on your system? > > > > Many thanks for the response. I am not sure if xz utils is installed > > by default in debian: > > > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/xz-utils > > > > I will log in to the debian install and check. > > > > Regards and thanks > > > > MF > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Fabian > > > -- > > > Fabian Groffen > > > Gentoo on a different level > > > > -- > Fabian Groffen > Gentoo on a different level
