M4 Program - Building Sendmail

[Shawn Rutledge]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:30:30AM -0700, Simper, Brian D wrote:
> 
> I'm running into an error when I build sendmail:
> 
> " ERROR: Can not locate an M4 program"

Sure, m4 is a macro processing package which is used to generate
sendmail.cf from a higher-level "language".  You need it.  Probably
it's separate from the sendmail source; just get a pre-built package
for your platform and install.

> I'm doing the basic install as per the sendmail install doc.  Does this
> error make sense to any of you?  This is just a clip.  I'm getting these all
> down the line.
> 
> [root@petasus sendmail-8.12.6]# sh Build
> Making all in:
> /extra/sendmail/sendmail-8.12.6/libsm
> Configuration: pfx=, os=Linux, rel=2.4.18-10smp, rbase=2, rroot=2.4,
> arch=i686, sfx=, variant=optimized
> ERROR: Can not locate an M4 program
> Making all in:
> /extra/sendmail/sendmail-8.12.6/libsmutil
> Configuration: pfx=, os=Linux, rel=2.4.18-10smp, rbase=2, rroot=2.4,
> arch=i686, sfx=, variant=optimized
> ERROR: Can not locate an M4 program
> Making all in:
> /extra/sendmail/sendmail-8.12.6/libsmdb
> Configuration: pfx=, os=Linux, rel=2.4.18-10smp, rbase=2, rroot=2.4,
> arch=i686, sfx=, variant=optimized
> ERROR: Can not locate an M4 program
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian
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