Build m4 on RHEL 8

[Duncan,Michael]

Hello,

I am attempting to build a bison 3.7 module on a HPC cluster running RHEL 8.1

bison 3.7 requires gcc and m4 modules to build, so I am attempting to build the m4 module version 1.4.18

I loaded the gcc 9.2.0 module for the compile.

The configure step seems to work fine.

I run into the following error during the make step:

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  CC       fclose.o

  CC       fcntl.o

  CC       fflush.o

  CC       fpurge.o

  CC       freadahead.o

freadahead.c: In function 'freadahead':

freadahead.c:92:3: error: #error "Please port gnulib freadahead.c to your platform! Look at the definition of fflush, fread, ungetc on your system, then report this to bug-gnulib."

   92 |  #error "Please port gnulib freadahead.c to your platform! Look at the definition of fflush, fread, ungetc on your system, then report this to bug-gnulib."

      |   ^~~~~

make[3]: *** [Makefile:1910: freadahead.o] Error 1

make[3]: Leaving directory '/cm/shared/build/m4-1.4.18/lib'

make[2]: *** [Makefile:1674: all] Error 2

make[2]: Leaving directory '/cm/shared/build/m4-1.4.18/lib'

make[1]: *** [Makefile:1572: all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory '/cm/shared/build/m4-1.4.18'

make: *** [Makefile:1528: all] Error 2

[root@coprlclnhead1 m4-1.4.18]#

I do have coreutils installed, which is what I think this requires.  I am also attaching the output of the configure step. (I edited the hostname, but otherwise it is just as it was produced)

Can you assist in determining what I need to do to get this compiled?  Just installing through the OS does not work if bison requires m4 in order to run.  If bison only requires m4 to compile, then I may be able to just install m4 during the module build.

Thank you,

Mike Duncan
IT Engineering

MD Anderson
O 713-745-5742

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