I agree, install m4 in your Debian box, and it should skip it:

    [[ $(m4 --version 2>&1) == *GNU*1.4.1?* ]] || (bootstrap_m4) || return 1

Fabian

On 04-06-2019 13:46:39 +0200, Olivier Huber wrote:
> 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
> 
> [1]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
> <[2][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
> 
> 
> 
>  References:
>    1. 
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-devel/m4/files/m4-1.4.18-glibc228.patch
>    2. mailto:[email protected]
> 
> read_char: errno==EILSEQ; invalid byte sequence for UTF-8: 
-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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