gEDA-user: PCB compilation wipeout on OpenBSD

[Dan McMahill]

Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 03:18:31PM -0400, Dan McMahill wrote:
> 
>>Karel Kulhavy wrote:
>>
>>>After installing all the dependencies not mentioned in README I could 
>>>configure,
>>>but my make still wipes out:
>>>
>>>/usr/bin/m4  -I . -F pcblib ./common.m4 TTL_74xx_DIL.m4 amphenol.m4 
>>>connector.m4 crystal.m4 generic.m4 gtag.m4 jerry.m4 linear.m4 logic.m4 
>>>lsi.m4 memory.m4 optical.m4 pci.m4 resistor_0.25W.m4 resistor_adjust.m4 
>>>resistor_array.m4 texas_inst_amplifier.m4 texas_inst_voltage_reg.m4 
>>>transistor.m4 amp.m4 bourns.m4 cts.m4 geda.m4 johnstech.m4 minicircuits.m4 
>>>panasonic.m4
>>>m4: unknown option -- F
>>>usage: m4 [-gs] [-Dname[=value]] [-d flags] [-I dirname] [-o filename] [-t 
>>>macro] [-Uname]
>>>gmake[2]: *** [pcblib] Error 1
>>>
>>>I looked into man m4 on some Linux box and -F is -F, --freeze-state=FILE
>>>produce a frozen state on FILE at end
>>>
>>>I don't know what it is. My m4 is of unknown version. --version, -version,
>>>--v, -v, --help, -help, --h, -h, man m4, m4 don't produce any version
>>>information and the binary of m4m contains only one occurence of the
>>>'.' character in this context:
>>>$%&'()*+,-./0123456789
>>>It doesn't contain "freez" or "froz" in man m4.
>>>
>>>CL<
>>
>>
>>looks like you need GNU m4.  If anyone wants to contribute an autoconf 
>>test I'll be happy to add it.  Looks like we should check to see if m4 
>>accepts -F and if not error out with a message saying to install GNU m4.
>>
>>I added a note to the INSTALL file.
>>
>>-Dan
> 
> 
> I installed GNU m4 1.4.4 from the OpenBSD package. It was installed under
> /usr/local/bin/gm4. Then I renamed the BSD m4 in /usr/bin to bm4 and
> the gm4 to m4 so
> clock at kestrel:~/geda-gschem-20060123$ m4 --version
> GNU M4 1.4.4
> 
> and still the same:
> clock at kestrel:~/geda-gschem-20060123$ ./configure       
> configure: error: cannot find sources (noweb/gschem.nw) in . or ..
> 

Still the same?  It seems you're trying to compile a completely 
different package and getting an entirelly different error that what 
you've reported above.

There should be no reason to do the renaming thing as long as gm4 is in 
your path.  pcb looks for that first and you can always set 
M4=/usr/loca/bin/gm4 if you want to be certain that thats the one 
configure finds.

In terms of your problem building gschem, do you have the file 
./noweb/gschem.nw?  It sounds to me like you only have a partial set of 
files for gschem or perhaps you've moved the configure script out of its 
original place in the sources.

-Dan