(don't forget to copy the list when you respond just in case other people can help too.)

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 01:05:38PM -0500, Jason Dusek wrote:

It prints this:

============================================================================= When you report a trouble about building CVS version of inkscape, Please report following information about distro and tools version, too.

--1. distribution------------------------------------------------------------ FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE

--2. tools------------------------------------------------------------------- which m4: /usr/bin/m4

and then it doesn't return.

Hm, I suspect line 27 of "tools-version.sh". I bet BSD's "m4" isn't expecting "--version" and maybe waits for input.

What does "m4 --version" do on your system?

If it hangs, does

m4 --version </dev/null

NOT hang? Maybe I can put that fix in if it helps.