No usable m4 in $PATH or /usr/5bin

 GMP install error: No usable m4 in $PATH or /usr/5bin

 

Install error.

     

Error description

 

Operating system: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx

 

Downloaded the GMP source code, version 5.0.1. Extracted the files. Started 'configure':

 

richel@richel1-desktop:~/Downloads/gmp-5.0.1$ ./configure

 

Screen output:

 

checking build system type... corei-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... corei-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking ABI=64 checking compiler gcc -O2 -pedantic -m64 ... no checking ABI=32 checking compiler gcc -m32 -O2 -pedantic -fomit-frame-pointer ... yes checking compiler gcc -m32 -O2 -pedantic -fomit-frame-pointer has sizeof(long)==4... yes checking compiler gcc -m32 -O2 -pedantic -fomit-frame-pointer -mtune=core2... yes checking compiler gcc -m32 -O2 -pedantic -fomit-frame-pointer -mtune=core2 -march=core2... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables...  checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... -std=gnu99 checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO Standard C... (cached) -std=gnu99 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E checking build system compiler gcc -std=gnu99... yes checking for build system preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E checking for build system executable suffix...  checking whether build system compiler is ANSI... yes checking for build system compiler math library... -lm checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking if the assembler knows about MMX instructions... yes checking if the assembler knows about SSE2 instructions... yes using ABI="32" CC="gcc -std=gnu99" CFLAGS="-m32 -O2 -pedantic -fomit-frame-pointer -mtune=core2 -march=core2" CPPFLAGS="" MPN_PATH=" x86/p6/sse2 x86/p6/p3mmx x86/p6/mmx x86/p6 x86 generic" checking for function prototypes... yes checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for string.h... (cached) yes checking whether assembler supports --noexecstack option... yes checking for ar... ar checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc -std=gnu99... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking whether ln -s works... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for objdump... objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for ar... (cached) ar checking for strip... strip checking for ranlib... ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc -std=gnu99 object... ok checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for g77... no checking for xlf... no checking for f77... no checking for frt... no checking for pgf77... no checking for cf77... no checking for fort77... no checking for fl32... no checking for af77... no checking for xlf90... no checking for f90... no checking for pgf90... no checking for pghpf... no checking for epcf90... no checking for gfortran... gfortran checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes checking whether gfortran accepts -g... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if gcc -std=gnu99 supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if gcc -std=gnu99 PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if gcc -std=gnu99 static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc -std=gnu99 supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc -std=gnu99 supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gcc -std=gnu99 linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if g++ static flag -static works... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking for gfortran option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gfortran PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gfortran static flag -static works... yes checking if gfortran supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gfortran supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gfortran linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking fcntl.h usability... yes checking fcntl.h presence... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking float.h usability... yes checking float.h presence... yes checking for float.h... yes checking invent.h usability... no checking invent.h presence... no checking for invent.h... no checking langinfo.h usability... yes checking langinfo.h presence... yes checking for langinfo.h... yes checking locale.h usability... yes checking locale.h presence... yes checking for locale.h... yes checking nl_types.h usability... yes checking nl_types.h presence... yes checking for nl_types.h... yes checking sys/attributes.h usability... no checking sys/attributes.h presence... no checking for sys/attributes.h... no checking sys/iograph.h usability... no checking sys/iograph.h presence... no checking for sys/iograph.h... no checking sys/mman.h usability... yes checking sys/mman.h presence... yes checking for sys/mman.h... yes checking sys/param.h usability... yes checking sys/param.h presence... yes checking for sys/param.h... yes checking sys/processor.h usability... no checking sys/processor.h presence... no checking for sys/processor.h... no checking sys/pstat.h usability... no checking sys/pstat.h presence... no checking for sys/pstat.h... no checking sys/sysinfo.h usability... yes checking sys/sysinfo.h presence... yes checking for sys/sysinfo.h... yes checking sys/syssgi.h usability... no checking sys/syssgi.h presence... no checking for sys/syssgi.h... no checking sys/systemcfg.h usability... no checking sys/systemcfg.h presence... no checking for sys/systemcfg.h... no checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking sys/times.h usability... yes checking sys/times.h presence... yes checking for sys/times.h... yes checking for sys/resource.h... yes checking for sys/sysctl.h... yes checking for machine/hal_sysinfo.h... no checking whether fgetc is declared... yes checking whether fscanf is declared... yes checking whether optarg is declared... yes checking whether ungetc is declared... yes checking whether vfprintf is declared... yes checking whether sys_errlist is declared... yes checking whether sys_nerr is declared... yes checking return type of signal handlers... void checking for intmax_t... yes checking for long double... yes checking for long long... yes checking for ptrdiff_t... yes checking for quad_t... yes checking for uint_least32_t... yes checking for intptr_t... yes checking for preprocessor stringizing operator... yes checking for working volatile... yes checking for C/C++ restrict keyword... __restrict checking whether <stdarg.h> exists and works... yes checking whether gcc __attribute__ ((const)) works... yes checking whether gcc __attribute__ ((malloc)) works... yes checking whether gcc __attribute__ ((mode (XX))) works... yes checking whether gcc __attribute__ ((noreturn)) works... yes checking for inline... inline checking for cos in -lm... yes checking for working alloca.h... yes checking for alloca (via gmp-impl.h)... yes checking how to allocate temporary memory... alloca checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking format of `double' floating point... IEEE little endian checking for alarm... yes checking for attr_get... no checking for clock... yes checking for clock_gettime... no checking for cputime... no checking for getpagesize... yes checking for getrusage... yes checking for gettimeofday... yes checking for getsysinfo... no checking for localeconv... yes checking for memset... yes checking for mmap... yes checking for mprotect... yes checking for nl_langinfo... yes checking for obstack_vprintf... yes checking for popen... yes checking for processor_info... no checking for pstat_getprocessor... no checking for raise... yes checking for read_real_time... no checking for sigaction... yes checking for sigaltstack... yes checking for sigstack... yes checking for syssgi... no checking for strchr... yes checking for strerror... yes checking for strnlen... yes checking for strtol... yes checking for strtoul... yes checking for sysconf... yes checking for sysctl... yes checking for sysctlbyname... no checking for times... yes checking for vsnprintf... yes checking whether vsnprintf works... yes checking whether sscanf needs writable input... no checking for struct pst_processor.psp_iticksperclktick... no checking for suitable m4... configure: error: No usable m4 in $PATH or /usr/5bin (see config.log for reasons).

      

Cause

 

M4 is not installed.

     

Solution

 

Start the Ubuntu software Center and install 'M4' (see this screenshot).