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Many thanks to Fabian and Olivier. |
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I have installed m4 in debian: |
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root@fart:/home/mikef# apt-get install m4 |
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Reading package lists... Done |
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Building dependency tree |
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Reading state information... Done |
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Suggested packages: |
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m4-doc |
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The following NEW packages will be installed: |
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m4 |
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0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. |
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Need to get 203 kB of archives. |
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After this operation, 361 kB of additional disk space will be used. |
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Get:1 http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian buster/main amd64 m4 |
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amd64 1.4.18-2 [203 kB] |
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Fetched 203 kB in 0s (489 kB/s) |
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Selecting previously unselected package m4. |
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(Reading database ... 188609 files and directories currently installed.) |
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Preparing to unpack .../archives/m4_1.4.18-2_amd64.deb ... |
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Unpacking m4 (1.4.18-2) ... |
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Setting up m4 (1.4.18-2) ... |
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Processing triggers for install-info (6.5.0.dfsg.1-4+b1) ... |
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Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ... |
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root@fart:/home/mikef# |
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I will try running the gentoo prefix install and see how I get on.... |
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Regards |
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MF |
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On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 12:54, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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> I agree, install m4 in your Debian box, and it should skip it: |
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> [[ $(m4 --version 2>&1) == *GNU*1.4.1?* ]] || (bootstrap_m4) || return 1 |
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> Fabian |
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> On 04-06-2019 13:46:39 +0200, Olivier Huber wrote: |
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> > Hi Michael, |
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> > |
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> > What does ``m4 --version'' return on your debian install? |
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> > I'm no dev, however, if you have a valid m4 install, you shouldn't need to have |
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> > m4 bootstrapped. |
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> > If m4 is not installed, you may want to do so (as well as bison, patch, ...). |
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> > Otherwise, you could apply some patch to m4 during the bootstrap process. |
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> > For instance, this bug has been fixed in Gentoo with this patch |
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> > |
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> > [1]https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-devel/m4/files/m4-1.4.18-glibc228.patch |
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> > Best, |
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> > -- |
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> > |
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> > Olivier Huber |
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> > |
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> > On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 1:35 PM Michael Fothergill |
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> > <[2]michael.fothergill@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > I have a separate gentoo installation on this machine. |
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> > > Could I compile m4 on it and port it to the debian install and run it |
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> > > there in some way? |
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> > |
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> > > Regards |
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> > |
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> > > MF |
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> > References: |
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> > 1. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-devel/m4/files/m4-1.4.18-glibc228.patch |
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> > 2. mailto:michael.fothergill@×××××.com |
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> > |
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> > read_char: errno==EILSEQ; invalid byte sequence for UTF-8: |
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> -- |
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> Fabian Groffen |
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> Gentoo on a different level |
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