Re: Version 2.5_rc1 m4 message

[Tys Lefering]

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Joel E. Denny wrote:
>> GNU M4 1.4.6 or later is required; 1.4.16 or newer is recommended.
> Can you determine what m4 configure is picking up?

This is the message about m4 in the compilation log files:
checking for GNU M4 that supports accurate traces... configure: error:
no acceptable m4 could be found in $PATH.
GNU M4 1.4.6 or later is required; 1.4.16 or newer is recommended.
GNU M4 1.4.15 uses a buggy replacement strstr on some systems.

These are the GNU/LINUX rpm based distributions with the m4 versions:

Fedora:
Fedora_12: installing m4-1.4.13-4.fc12 [m4 error]
Fedora_13: installing m4-1.4.13-4.fc12 [m4 error]
Fedora_14: build is oke using m4-1.4.14-1.fc14

Mandriva:
Mandriva_2009.1: installing m4-1.4.12-1mdv2009.1 [m4 error]
Mandriva_2010: installing m4-1.4.13-1mdv2010.0 [m4 error]
Mandriva_2010.1: installing m4-1.4.14-1mdv2010.1 [m4 error]

Redhat:
RedHat_RHEL-4: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel [error this does not build no
java-1.6.0]
Redhat_RHEL-5: build is oke using m4-1.4.5-3.el5.1
RedHat_RHEL-6: installing m4-1.4.13-5.el6 [m4 error]

SuSe Linux:
SLES_9: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel [error this does not build no java-1.6.0]
SLES_10_SKD: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel [error this does not build no java-1.6.0]
SLE_11: installing m4-1.4.12-1.19 [m4 error]
SLE_11_SP1: installing m4-1.4.12-1.19 [m4 error]
openSUSE_11.2: installing m4-1.4.13-2.2 [m4 error]
openSUSE_11.3: installing m4-1.4.13-6.1 [m4 error]
openSUSE_11.4: build is oke using m4-1.4.15-2.1
openSUSE_Factory: build is oke.m4-1.4.16-2.1
openSUSE_Tumbleweed: build is oke.m4-1.4.15-2.1

Centos:
CentOS_CentOS-5: build is oke using m4-1.4.5-3.el5.1

And noticed because of m4 version the Bison2.5 does not
compile on not very old distro's like Mandriva-2009 (only 2)
but needs the newest GNU/LINUX distributions.

Guessing that cannot be fixed or relaxed to allow
it on more GNU/LINUX distributions.