From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 3 21:45:37 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3D69D8B for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2015 21:45:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.madpilot.net (grunt.madpilot.net [78.47.145.38]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6BFFA642FE for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2015 21:45:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail (mail [192.168.254.3]) by mail.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3kFGqS1LC6zZs3; Sat, 3 Jan 2015 22:45:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.madpilot.net ([192.168.254.3]) by mail (mail.madpilot.net [192.168.254.3]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id UXz29RTQRjzR; Sat, 3 Jan 2015 22:45:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from tommy.madpilot.net (host132-119-dynamic.180-80-r.retail.telecomitalia.it [80.180.119.132]) by mail.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Sat, 3 Jan 2015 22:45:07 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <54A862E2.2070102@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 22:45:06 +0100 From: Guido Falsi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Mueller , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multimedia/libva fails in configure stage, missing file? References: <251934.51704.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <54A074AF.4040709@FreeBSD.org> <100948.14193.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <54A1A000.7050807@FreeBSD.org> <92121.6371.bm@smtp115.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <54A32410.9020300@FreeBSD.org> <106917.74102.bm@smtp112.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <54A6DB7A.5000905@FreeBSD.org> <987407.23877.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <987407.23877.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 21:45:37 -0000 On 01/03/15 20:36, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> It's not used much since most software comes with a precompiled >> configure script which works fine. automake/autoconf is required only by >> those ports which come without a precompiled configure script or for >> some reason require it to be recompiled on FreeBSD. > >> >>> I have an old 10.0-STABLE installation with no ports/packages built yet, maybe I could try something on that regarding automake and autoconf? >> > >> You could try but you really shoud investigate why automake dies on your >> system. > > > Now I wonder if automake-1.14.1 would fix the problem. I guess I'd have to do that port myself, and submit if it seems to work. > You can try, but, since the problem is local to your system, I don't think updating the software will solve it. > I checked /usr/local/share/aclocal, found a lot of files with .m4 extension, to the left of .m4 was in most cases a package name. > Mine was just an idea. The cause could be something else. I don't know much about the automake internals. It simply dies with return code one. You should try to diagnose that. > But there was no m4 subdirectory. > > I got the warning message > aclocal-1.14: warning: couldn't open directory 'm4': No such file or directory > > wonder what that means. I don't know, but it's just a warning, I don't think it's the cause of the failure. I think it is looking for and m4 directory in libva distribution, which isn't there in fact. -- Guido Falsi