ports/173962: autoconf requires the installed release of gm4c$; rejects it anyway

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>Number:         173962
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       autoconf requires the installed release of gm4c$; rejects it anyway
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 28 02:50:00 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Charlie &
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD shuttle.paulbeard.org 8.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE #3: Thu Aug 30 16:34:02 PDT 2012 root at shuttle.paulbeard.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SHUTTLE i386


	
>Description:

why is looking for gm4 as /usr/local/ports/gm4 instead of /usr/local/bin/gm4? 

	gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/autoconf/work/autoconf-2.69/lib'
cd ../lib/m4sugar && gmake  version.m4
gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/autoconf/work/autoconf-2.69/lib/m4sugar'
:;{ \
  echo '# This file is part of -*- Autoconf -*-.' && \
  echo '# Version of Autoconf.' && \
  echo '# Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009' && \
  echo '# Free Software Foundation, Inc.' && \
  echo  &&\
  echo 'm4_define([m4_PACKAGE_NAME],      [GNU Autoconf])' && \
  echo 'm4_define([m4_PACKAGE_TARNAME],   [autoconf])' && \
  echo 'm4_define([m4_PACKAGE_VERSION],   [2.69])' && \
  echo 'm4_define([m4_PACKAGE_STRING],    [GNU Autoconf 2.69])' && \
  echo 'm4_define([m4_PACKAGE_BUGREPORT], [bug-autoconf at gnu.org])' && \
  echo 'm4_define([m4_PACKAGE_URL],       [http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/])' && \
  echo 'm4_define([m4_PACKAGE_YEAR],      ['`sed 's/^\([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\).*/\1/;q' ../../ChangeLog`'])'; \
} > version.m4-t
mv version.m4-t version.m4
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/autoconf/work/autoconf-2.69/lib/m4sugar'
autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg'         ../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib         --language M4sh --cache '' --melt ./autoconf.as -o autoconf.in
autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /usr/ports/bin/gm4
gmake[2]: *** [autoconf.in] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/autoconf/work/autoconf-2.69/bin'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/autoconf/work/autoconf-2.69'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/autoconf.
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.16
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