autoconf problem with gcc

[llewelly@xmission.com]

TPCnospam@mklab.ph.rhul.ac.uk writes:

> Dear All,
> 	I have obtained a copy of the gcc source using;
> 
> cvs -z9 -d :ext:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gcc co -r tree-ssa-20020619-branch -D 1/4/2003 gcc
> 
> but cannot get autoconf to work. My reason for wanting to run autoconf
> rather than just running the existing configure is that the g95 source
> which I am trying to build, patches configure.in (and not configure).  The
> problem is also present with the unpatched configure.in as d/l from
> Savannah.
> 
> I find that autoconf just produces an empty configure file. There are no
> error messages. I have tried autoconf 2.13, 2.57 and 2.59 but the results
> are the same. I have m4 version 1.4. Here is what I see;

This question is better suited to gcc at gcc.gnu.org .