sphinxbase requires GNU m4 to work but the installation of m4 failed

[Cindy Chang]

If I want to install sphinxbase, I need to install automake and autoconf, which require GNU m4.
Here are the steps I took on cygwin:

 - wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.13.tar.gz
 - tar -xzvf m4-1.4.13.tar.gz
 - cd m4-1.4.13
 - ./configure
 - make

The terminal(cygwin) shows long messages so I only copy the last couple of them.

• process_begin: CreateProcess((null), /usr/bin/mkdir -p sys, ...) failed.
• make (e=2): ?t?Χ?????w?????C
• C:\MinGW\bin\make.exe[2]: *** [sys/stat.h] Error 2
• C:\MinGW\bin\make.exe[2]: Leaving directory
• `C:/Users/User/Desktop/cpythonworkspace/sphinx/m4-1.4.13/lib'
• make.exe[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
• make.exe[1]: Leaving directory
• `C:/Users/User/Desktop/cpythonworkspace/sphinx/m4-1.4.13'
• C:\MinGW\bin\make.exe: *** [all] Error 2

Besides, the configure file(please take a look here) contains lots of errors.

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

Cygwin/MinGW is a very bad idea from the start for such unexperienced person. Use Linux.

[Cindy Chang]

Yes, I will try it on Linux several days after.
My manager/boss told me to install on windows first, then install on Linux/Unix (or Mac) afterwards. I install the pocketsphinx on Mac successfully. :DDD :)))
For future people who are interested, I actually find some way without installing GNU m4. That is, I directly install automake and autoconf using cyg-apt on cygwin.