Chapter 17 : Compiling and Installing M4 - Cross Compiling Temporary Tools

Hi,

In this chapter we are going to compile and install M4-1.4.18 package.

Note :

- Please check the version of the package when you compile and install, at the time of writing the package was at version 1.4.18

- You should be logged in as lfs user, when you perform the actions described here.

- Change directory to the sources folder (/mnt/lfs/sources)

- Please check http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/m4.html for more details.

Unpack the M4 tar ball package and change directory to it.

$ tar -xvf m4-1.4.18.tar.xz

$ cd m4-1.4.18

Make some fixes required by glibc-2.28 and later.

$ sed -i 's/IO_ftrylockfile/IO_EOF_SEEN/' lib/*.c

$ echo "#define _IO_IN_BACKUP 0x100" >> lib/stdio-impl.h

Preparing M4 for compilation

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr   \

            --host=$LFS_TGT \

            --build=$(build-aux/config.guess)

Compiling M4

make -j4

Installing M4

make DESTDIR=$LFS install

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