The following reply was made to PR pkg/37620; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/37620: devel/autoconf doesn't use GNU m4
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:53:18 -0600 (CST)

 On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
 
 >         checking for expr... /usr/pkgsrc/devel/autoconf/work/.tools/bin/expr
 >         checking for gm4... /usr/pkg/bin/gm4
 >         checking whether m4 supports frozen files... no
 >         configure: error: GNU M4 1.4 is required
 
 
 Do you have any config.log output that has more details about what failed 
 here?
 
 (I assume your gm4 is 1.4.10.)
 
 Did it run your native m4 instead of /usr/pkg/bin/gm4?
 
 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 	Bootstrap pkgsrc on FreeBSD and install devel/autoconf
 > >Fix:
 > 
 > 
 > 
 
   Jeremy C. Reed