On 17 October 2010 16:55, Alex Owen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ah... I seem to have hit an issue with a slightly schizophrenic SL build
> system!
> Joy!
>
> Please Please Please can we try and avoid this or at least document simmilar
> issues for SL6???
>
> Is seems that m4 in SL5 is version 1.4.5-3.el5.1 but that there is an SL5
> SRPM at version 1.4.8-1 which
> has been used to build autoconf 2.59-12.
>
> According to [1] rebuilding autoconf srpm against m4-1.4.5-3.el5.1 seems to
> fix things.
> According to [2] perhaps I should install m4-1.4.8-1.
>
> Perhaps someone with an upstream RHEL5 could run the comand from [1] and
> post the output to this thread.
> rpm -ql autoconf | egrep m4f | xargs egrep 'frozen state file gen'
[ajb@Build32R5 ~]$ rpm -ql autoconf | egrep m4f | xargs egrep 'frozen
state file gen'
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoconf.m4f:# This is a frozen state
file generated by GNU M4 1.4.5
/usr/share/autoconf/autotest/autotest.m4f:# This is a frozen state
file generated by GNU M4 1.4.5
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/m4sh.m4f:# This is a frozen state file
generated by GNU M4 1.4.5
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4f:# This is a frozen state file
generated by GNU M4 1.4.5
[ajb@Build32R5 ~]$
[ajb@Build64R5 ~]$ rpm -ql autoconf | egrep m4f | xargs egrep 'frozen
state file gen'
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoconf.m4f:# This is a frozen state
file generated by GNU M4 1.4.5
/usr/share/autoconf/autotest/autotest.m4f:# This is a frozen state
file generated by GNU M4 1.4.5
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/m4sh.m4f:# This is a frozen state file
generated by GNU M4 1.4.5
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4f:# This is a frozen state file
generated by GNU M4 1.4.5
[ajb@Build64R5 ~]$
As requested, the above is the output returned by 32- & 64-bit RHEL 5.5
Alan.
