On 11/15/15 01:31, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: > Nigel Taylor <njtaylor0...@btinternet.com> writes: > > [...] > >> Haven't looked at the most recent diff for the Makefile, so might have >> changed. >> >> Not easy to switch to m4 as implied. More is required than the >> CONFIGURE_ENV change. ac_cv_prog_gnu_m4_gnu gets forced to yes/no "-g" >> setting is ignored, as M4_GNU = "" or "--gnu" in configure, so I patched >> configure, also possible as an alternative to bring back/update the >> output.c patch. Patching configure causes gnu m4 problems, when tests >> fail, as the changed configure causes some regeneration, and wants >> autoconf or more (I just move the configure patch out the way). > > Ah ha, indeed. Since that makes the CONFIGURE_ENV parts irrelevant, > I'll drop them. > > It might be a detail given the amount of work you mention below, but > maybe /usr/bin/m4 should lie better, and support long options --help > and --gnu? >
Added --gnu option, -g exists. -h doesn't exist, --help -h can be added, less of a priority. I put some diffs in ~nigel for m4, doesn't include --gnu option, but has other changes so far.
