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Shibli
Shibli

Reputation: 6149

Installing m4 which requires autoconf

I downloaded m4 from here. In the INSTALL it is said that I should first ./configure. But to do that, if I understood correctly, I need to generate configure via autoconf from configure.ac. I do not have autoconf so I downloaded it from here. The problem is that I need m4 to build autoconf. Seems like they depend on each other. How can I install m4?

Upvotes: 1

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Answers (1)

ldav1s
ldav1s

Reputation: 16315

In the INSTALL it is said that I should first ./configure

Yes.

But to do that, if I understood correctly, I need to generate configure via autoconf from configure.ac.

No, there's no need to do that. The configure you need is in the m4 tarball.

How can I install m4?

The old three step: ./configure ; make ; make install;

Upvotes: 1

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