I agree, install m4 in your Debian box, and it should skip it:
[[ $(m4 --version 2>&1) == *GNU*1.4.1?* ]] || (bootstrap_m4) || return 1Fabian 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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