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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 1.0E] m4 seems a little broken
Date: 28 Oct 93 23:46:49
Organization: Lotus Development Ireland
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In-reply-to: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net's message of 27 Oct 1993 17:15:20 GMT

>It seems that a problem  exists in current FreeBSD's  m4 (from UCB 4.4BSD I
>guess). It chokes on new sendmail's .m4 files (m4/proto.m4).

Yup - for what it's worth, BSDI and NetBSD's m4 both break in exactly
the same way; I was chasing this exact problem up a couple of weeks
ago.

>and replacing m4 with GNU m4 1.0.3 wiped away the problem.
>
>-rw-r--r--    1 ftp        239537 Dec 20  1992 /sources/gnu/m4-1.0.3.tar.gz

That's very interesting.  I'd pop in GNU's m4 tomorrow except I'm not all
that sure what other things it would then break! :-(

We'll definately have to look into this, thanks!  I didn't know GNU m4
worked.

				Jordan

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(Jordan K. Hubbard)  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie

I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee.  I am an independent
contractor.