Re: m4 installed but bison still says it is required after it is there - is there a freeze switch for m4 ?

[Hans Aberg]

On 8 Dec 2005, at 19:16, frank harrington wrote:

> I successfully installed m4; it is in /usr/bin - but
> the bison configure file still complains that m4 is
> required even after it is present. The previous
> message is about freeze files.
>
> I am installing m4 and bison to install aide.
>
> Any suggestions ?

At this point, you might have to reinstall your UNIX installation, if  
what you did was not intentional. :-) What UNIX are you running?  
Under BSD UNIX, one normally installs new stuff in /usr/local/. Put  
the sources in /usr/local/src/. The binaries will end up in /usr/ 
local/bin/. Then users set searchpaths according to the scheme:
  [home]:[local]:[system]
E.g.,
  PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin
You could also make the installs in your home directory: I use  
~local/, and then add the [home] part above.

  Hans Aberg