Hi Norman,
here's another problem (which probablyalso applies to Linux). Today's
Solaris box doesn't have a GNU m4, so bootstrap tries to build your
version, at which point I see:
> ./bootstrap --buildsupport-only
Bootstrapping with
STARCONF_DEFAULT_STARLINK = /loc/ss6/pwd/cvs/build
STARCONF_DEFAULT_PREFIX = /loc/ss6/pwd/cvs/build
BUILDSUPPORT_PREFIX = /loc/ss6/pwd/cvs/build/buildsupport
Do we need to build GNU m4? true
Building GNU m4:
make -f Makefile.tmp prefix=/loc/ss6/pwd/cvs/build/buildsupport
MANIFEST=/loc/ss6/pwd/cvs/build/manifests
/loc/ss6/pwd/cvs/build/manifests/m4
make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target
`/loc/ss6/pwd/cvs/build/manifests/m4'
Failed to make buildsupport
Peter.
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