Re: [Flex-devel] Is GNU m4 really needed?

[Tim L. <ti...@ti...>]

Isaac Dunham <id...@la...> wrote:

> [...]
> The steps up to chmod -x roughly correspond to creating a release; those
> afterwards correspond to building from the tarball.
> So yes, it works for all sane configurations; it fails when you
> -install GNU M4
> -then install autotools
> -then remove gnu m4 (breaks autotools)

Thanks for testing and nice to see that it works.  Just to
clarify: There shouldn't be *any* failure unless you change
something after ./configure.  So it probably wasn't a good
idea of me to have you run autoconf yourself as it apparent-
ly only added some confusion :-).

Tim