Re: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/gm4: unrecognized option `--gnu'

On 04/01/2015 07:53 AM, Richard Sinclair wrote:
> I am making an attempt in compiling phalcon.so
> <https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon>  version 1.3.4.
> 
> During config I get:
> 
> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/gm4: unrecognized option `--gnu'

What version of m4 is that?  gm4 --version would say.  --gnu was added
in 1.4.12.  You may also want to report your problem to the phalcon
folks, in case they are interested in supporting older m4 versions.

> 
> I believe the dev originals must have used something like ubuntu to compile
> this and not osx yosemite.

I don't use OS X (not free software), so I can't say for sure, but I
suspect there are pre-built versions of newer m4 for your platform.

> 
> Could you recommend a version of m4 I could install into OS X yosemite that
> would recognise the option Œ‹gnu¹.

You could always build it yourself; 1.4.17 is here:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/

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