gmp-6.2.1 configuration error while configuring on WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04.6

[philliprusso]

kind regards to take time to help me. So I guess that one thing I maybe didn't quite understand m4 as a software package. not really familiar with m4 yet or what exactly it is used for. Should start me off on the right track. Merci beaucoup.




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------- Original Message -------
On Sunday, July 2nd, 2023 at 1:10 AM, Marc Glisse <marc.glisse at inria.fr> wrote:


> On Sat, 1 Jul 2023, philliprusso wrote:
> 
> > I have:
> > 
> > checking for suitable m4... configure: error: No usable m4 in $PATH or /usr/5bin (see config.log for reasons).
> > 
> > I don't quite get why I have to sudo ./configure or if I should be providing options here for WSL2 version of Ubuntu 20.04.6 on the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Anyone can help me to resolve this it is because I have to install gcc-11 on Ubuntu WSL2 for a software package that needs it.
> 
> 
> The error message is not "you failed, try some random other thing". It
> explicitly tells you that it tried to find a program called m4 (which is
> necessary for the build) and couldn't find it. So you need to install that
> before you can build GMP.
> 
> Plugging this exact error message in a search engine leads to
> https://stackoverflow.com/q/7902894/1918193 and many others.
> 
> Note that since this is Ubuntu, it would be easier to install pre-built
> packages with
> 
> sudo apt install libgmp-dev
> 
> --
> Marc Glisse