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List:       mingw-users
Subject:    Re: [Mingw-users] compiling autoconf
From:       Keith Marshall <keithmarshall () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2009-06-23 19:38:49
Message-ID: 200906232038.49517.keithmarshall () users ! sourceforge ! net
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On Tuesday 23 June 2009 16:56:18 Vincent R. wrote:
> >>> I have checked and I have m4 in /usr/bin :
> >>>
> >>> $ m4 --version
> >>> GNU M4 1.4.7
> >>
> >> Have a look at the paths: you checked /usr/bin/m4 while the
> >> make files tries to use /bin/m4

In a standard MSYS installation, the two are synonymous anyway; / 
and /usr are bound together, to refer to the same file system 
location, via an emulated loopback mount.

> > Create a symlink and still doesn't find it.

In general, symlinks don't work in MSYS, (unless Microsoft have 
actually got them working transparently in Windows 7).

> I have reinstalled by following a guide and now it works.

Pleased you got it working.  I do wonder if m4 may have been a red 
herring; is it possible that the MSYS build of *perl* may not have 
been installed correctly?

-- 

Regards,
Keith.

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