Re: M4sugar error

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Saeed, Ghazanfar wrote:
> I found following error message while building binutils:
> 
> bison -y -d  ./arparse.y
> 
> M4sugar requires GNU M4. Install it before installing M4sugar or
> set the M4 environment variable to its path name.*** Signal 13
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `arparse.c'
> Current working directory
> /space/home/engineering/gsaeed/simplescalar/binutils-2.5.2/binutils
> *** Error code 1

This is telling you that the wrong m4 is being used.

You can point it at the GNU M4 you installed to /usr/local by setting
the M4 environment variable to the correct path:

  export M4=/usr/local/bin/m4

(assuming you are using bash or equivalent).

> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-binutils'
> 
> My environment is on Sun-Machine (Solaris8-SPARC-IIe)
> 
> I have already installed bison, lex and M4 in /usr/local/bin
> 
> Now for above error it appears that I need to install M4sugar which I
> was not able to find anywhere for Solaris8. I have found only one file
> “m4sugar.m4” under

This is the m4sugar that the error message was reading when it told you
that you need to tell it where to find GNU M4.

> Could anybody help me in this regard?

HTH,
        Gary.
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