Hi Michael, What does ``m4 --version'' return on your debian install? I'm no dev, however, if you have a valid m4 install, you shouldn't need to have m4 bootstrapped.
If m4 is not installed, you may want to do so (as well as bison, patch, ...). Otherwise, you could apply some patch to m4 during the bootstrap process. For instance, this bug has been fixed in Gentoo with this patch https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-devel/m4/files/m4-1.4.18-glibc228.patch Best, -- Olivier Huber On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 1:35 PM Michael Fothergill < [email protected]> wrote: > I have a separate gentoo installation on this machine. > > Could I compile m4 on it and port it to the debian install and run it > there in some way? > > Regards > > MF > >
