Missing m4 forcing CLT reinstallation loop

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

There are multiple tickets on M4.  There is a fix in the works.  Yours
seems like the same thing.  Please see PR
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/22984 .


On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 7:16 PM Larry Stone <lstone19 at stonejongleux.com>
wrote:

> This seems like an Xcode issue more than MacPorts but since MacPorts is
> why I have Xcode and its command line tools installed, I’ll ask here.
>
> I upgraded to Sonoma about three weeks ago. All went well including
> following the MacPorts instructions for major MacOS upgrades. All was
> working fine. At the time, Xcode and CLT was version 15.1 but both have
> been upgraded to 15.3 since then.
>
> Today, for the first time since upgrading to Sonoma, I ran the MacPorts
> update sequence starting with port selfudpate. One of the packages needing
> updating was Postfix which requires local building. The upgrade script
> errored and an error box popped up saying "the m4 command requires the
> command line developer tools.” Uh, they’re installed. Thinking maybe
> something had changed, I let it rerun the CLT installation but per System
> Information, the version was the same. Tried to upgrade Postfix again and
> the same thing.
>
> Looking in the CLT directory, I saw usr/bin/gm4 but not m4. A search
> suggested that gm4 is just m4 with a different name (maybe GNU m4) and to
> link m4 to gm4. I did and Postfix upgraded OK.
>
> So what happened? Built OK three weeks ago with CLT 15.1 but failed today
> with CLT 15.3. Was m4 in 15.1 but is now missing? (Normally, I’d just go to
> the Time Machine disk to take a look but I had to reinitialize it just a
> few days ago due to an error trying to expand the Time Machine partition on
> the disk). Am I OK linking m4 to gm4?
>
> --
> Larry Stone
> lstone19 at stonejongleux.com
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