install GNU m4 1.4 or later on OSX

Question

I'm interested to install GNU m4 1.4 or later into /usr/bin/, I installed Homebrew, like this, ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)", to be able to insall bfgminer, but when I got to brew install bfgminer–more or less following these instructions–I get told that need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /usr/bin/m4.

Can anyone tell me how I install GNU m4 1.4 or later on OSX 10.8.5?

Solution 1

The solution was to install the "Command Line Tools" from within Xcode. ⌘, opens preferences and the install button for the "Command Line Tools" can be found in the "Downloads."

Solution 2

Old question but i try to give new related solution

I run :

phpize

then got

autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/m4

because /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.2.8/bin/phpize always try to use it own /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/m4

Solve problem by:

• brew install m4

brew installed m4 to /usr/local/opt/m4

• mv /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/m4 /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/m4_backup
• ln -s /usr/local/opt/m4/bin/m4 /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/m4
• phpize
• unlink /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/m4
• mv /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/m4_backup /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/m4

hope this will help wrong m4 bin problem

Solution 3

On the other hand, if you have homebrew installed already, you can still look for m4 in other places. I just tried running "brew install m4" and it returns "homebrew/dupes/m4". So I run "sudo brew install homebrew/dupes/m4" instead. Now it installed m4 1.4.17 to my computer from gnu.

Comments

[chrisg86]

I had to run xcode-select --install to make it work. Thanks!

[dresh]

didn't help. I have installed