I was searching for a solution to my problem when I encountered your post.Why do I see a different log through your post rather than the normal link?http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=m4.git;a=shortlog shows the latest date 9/22/13http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=m4.git;a=shortlog;h=cf5cbd26d6134540c66e7a68f4de36471fe9c995 latest is 1/1/14 My original problem is regarding bootstrapping.The "latest" m4 commit c09a187c50f2f74e89d4d0991bdbd2c6846cc707 bootstrap result:success with Debian's native version "m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.16"fail with a newly built m4 version "m4 (GNU M4) 1.9a.643-c09a1-dirty":*****$ ./bootstrap --skip-po -v bootstrap: found 'configure.ac'bootstrap: export M4='m4'bootstrap: found 'Makefile.am'bootstrap: ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS='-I build-aux/m4'bootstrap: macro_dir='build-aux/m4'bootstrap: vc_ignore_files='.gitignore'bootstrap: export LIBTOOLIZE='true'bootstrap: export AUTOPOINT='true'bootstrap: found 'build-aux/m4/gnulib-cache.m4'bootstrap: export PATCH='patch'bootstrap: found 'help2man' version 1.43.3.bootstrap: found 'makeinfo' version 5.2.bootstrap: found '/cross-tools/bin/xz' for XZ.bootstrap: error: please set 'build_aux' in 'bootstrap.conf'bootstrap: or add the following (or similar) to your 'configure.ac':bootstrap: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([name of a directory for build scripts])*****You'll note that it asks me to set "build_aux".... oh my, I just realized something and tested it.Previously, I thought it was referring to "AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])" in "configure.ac", but looked at "bootstrap" and saw "build_aux=" @2328. It said it would pull it from "AC_INIT", but I could override it there, which I just did and it got past that.So now when it mentions AC_INIT. I had originally thought it could be a problem but wasn't sure how to deal with it:*****m4_bmatch(m4_defn([M4_VERSION]), [^[0-9]], [], [m4_define([M4_VERSION], [1.9a])])AC_INIT([GNU M4], m4_defn([M4_VERSION]), [[email protected]])*****I see the "1.9a" which correlates with the dirty version that gets built so I think something is going on there.
