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.