I am after Cygwins m4-1.4.17-1 source changes

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Wed Nov 27 22:25:00 GMT 2013


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:18:09PM +0000, Aaron Gray wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to build m4-1.4.17 and am getting an error. I tried
>downloading the src using the GUI interface but just got a file
>'m4-1.4.17-1.cygwin.patch' with no real changes, but the following in
>the text.
>
>~~~
>+Build instructions:
>+  unpack m4-1.4.17-1-src.tar.bz2
>+    if you use setup to install this src package, it will be
>+    unpacked under /usr/src automatically
>+  cd /usr/src
>+  cygport m4-1.4.17-1 all
>+
>+This will create:
>+  /usr/src/m4-1.4.17-1.tar.bz2
>+  /usr/src/m4-1.4.17-1-src.tar.bz2
>+
>+Or use 'cygport m4-1.4.17-1 prep' to get a patched source directory
>~~~
>
>m4-1.4.17-1-src.tar.bz2 does not appear to be there.

If you've downloaded the source, you've gotten the
m4-1.4.17-1-src.tar.xz file.

Extract that file using "tar xf".  It contains everything you need to
build m4 via the "cygport" command.

cgf

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