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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:26:58 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Beech Rintoul <freebsd@alaskaparadise.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: autoconf problem
Message-ID:  <20070122212658.GA67997@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <200701221154.15456.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com>
References:  <200701221154.15456.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com>

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On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:54:01AM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> While building /ftp/proftpd, pointyhat running 5.5-STABLE reported the 
> following:
> 
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: creating mod_wrap2.h
> /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's:/usr/local/share/examples/proftpd:/usr/local:' /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/config.h
> /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's: -lnsl::' /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/Make.rules
> /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:'  -e 's:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:'  
> /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/src/proftpd.8 
> /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/utils/ftpshut.8  
> /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/utils/ftpcount.1
> ===>  Building for proftpd-1.3.1.r2_1
> cd . && autoconf
> autoconf: not found
> gmake: *** [configure] Error 127
> *** Error code 2
> 
> I'm not quite sure how to deal with this. Should I add it as a BUILD_DEPENDS, 
> or USE_AUTOTOOLS? This problem doesn't show up on any local boxes I've tested 
> on.

USE_AUTOTOOLS sounds like the proper fix, although I don't remember
how that interfaces with configure scripts which want "autoconf"
versus autoconf213/253/259/261...

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                        http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, USA |
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