On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Urs Beyerle wrote:

> Hi,
>
> because I had a similar problem (I tried to rebuild kdebase) as
> described in the SL-Users mail list topic "Any hint on 'builtin
> `mkstemp' requested by frozen file is not supported'?"
>
> Is there a reason why m4-1.4.8-1 from SL is only in the SRPMS
> repository, but not in the RPM repositories?
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/SRPMS/SL/m4-1.4.8-1.src.rpm
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/i386/SL/m4-1.4.5-3.el5.1.i386.rpm
>
> I know RHEL5 has only m4-1.4.5-3.el5.1.

Yes that is the reason.

I have it in SRPMS so others that do building have a m4 that works better.

-Connie Sieh
>
> Urs
>