Re: version number option

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Daniel Convissor wrote:
> Hi Gary:

Hallo Dan,

[Putting bug-m4 back in Cc: -- someone else may search the archives to solve
the same problem in future]

> > $ m4 --version
> > GNU m4 1.4.4
> > $ ~/devel/savannah/m4-bsd/m4 --version
> > /home/gary/devel/savannah/m4-bsd/m4: invalid option -- -
> > usage: m4 [-gs] [-d flags] [-t macro] [-o file] [-Dname[=val]] [-Uname] 
> > [-I dirname...]
> >
> > Looks like you don't have GNU m4 installed on that machine.
>
> But when I do
>     pkg_info -x 'm4*'
> it says, among other things,
>     m4-1.4.3
>     GNU m4

I'm not familiar with the BSD ports system, so I'm afraid I can't really
help you with that part.

> Your test indicates you have two versions of m4 there.  The first being 
> "GNU m4 1.4.4".  The second output from you're getting, from 
> "~/devel/savannah/m4-bsd/m4 --version", seems similar to the output I was 
> getting.  Did you just go get that m4-bsd for testing, or did you already 
> have that laying around?

I am the maintainer of GNU m4, so I had the BSD binary lying around from
some compatibility tests I was doing a year or so ago (at that time I
went and got the m4-bsd sources and built it myself).

>  So it seems the porting m4 to BSD got messed up.

Or your PATH?  Where does BSD ports put its packages?  For darwinports,
everything is below /opt/local, and I have to add /opt/local/bin near
the start of my path to get the GNU versions of various tools.

> Thanks,
>
> --Dan

HTH,
        Gary.
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