m4-1.4.17 make error

[Seniha Çelik]

Hello,

I am facing with a problem, so I need some help.

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and trying to install m4-1.4.17. I need the older version to run a program, that's why I am using this version.

The error log I am facing with is:

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seniha.celik@CLAIRIZM1-00090:~/Downloads/m4-1.4.17$ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/seniha.celik@corp.airties.com/Downloads/m4-1.4.17'
Making all in .
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/seniha.celik@corp.airties.com/Downloads/m4-1.4.17'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/seniha.celik@corp.airties.com/Downloads/m4-1.4.17'
Making all in examples
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/seniha.celik@corp.airties.com/Downloads/m4-1.4.17/examples'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/seniha.celik@corp.airties.com/Downloads/m4-1.4.17/examples'
Making all in lib
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/seniha.celik@corp.airties.com/Downloads/m4-1.4.17/lib'
make  all-am
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/seniha.celik@corp.airties.com/Downloads/m4-1.4.17/lib'
depbase=`echo freadahead.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT freadahead.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o freadahead.o freadahead.c &&\
mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
freadahead.c: In function 'freadahead':
freadahead.c:91:3: 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."
  #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:1837: freadahead.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/seniha.celik@corp.airties.com/Downloads/m4-1.4.17/lib'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1602: all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/seniha.celik@corp.airties.com/Downloads/m4-1.4.17/lib'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1506: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/seniha.celik@corp.airties.com/Downloads/m4-1.4.17'
make: *** [Makefile:1461: all] Error 2

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Could you please help me about this?

Thanks,

Seniha Celik

Software Engineer