Re: version number option

[Daniel Convissor]

Hi Gary:

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:03:46PM +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> 
> [Putting bug-m4 back in Cc: -- someone else may search the archives to solve
> the same problem in future]

Ah, didn't notice the cc.  Thanks.


> Or your PATH?  Where does BSD ports put its packages?

Good point.  Packages get put into /usr/local/bin.  Doing a find for m4 on 
the whole system turned up /usr/bin/m4.  Stuff in /usr/bin comes from the 
FreeBSD distribution.  Looking in /usr/local/bin I found gm4, which is the 
package installed via "pkg_add -r m4" and queried via "pkg_info -x 'm4*'".  
So, calling "m4 --version" is getting the distribution m4, which isn't the 
GNU m4.

Perhaps I'll instigate a discussion on some FreeBSD list about the 
differences between the m4's.

Either way, when compiling stuff that demands GNU m4 what I'll likely have 
to do (depending on what I'm compiling) is provide a symlink to the gm4 
binary, adjust my path and/or set the M4 environment variable.

Thanks for your time,

--Dan

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