From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 5 08:38:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD8F416A402 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 08:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.239]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D82C13C442 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 08:38:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 69so1180267wra for ; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:38:44 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=czIuaoADjFcBp9JUr/P1vJmn8V2K6eY0DwsB9bmJKhiu7WaLkJ0Y7QHDLz9QwDPijqMbnF8vArRMhg2BPOShAyn9hQs864EtPngjfw9lyQzpNUVxlqvjU0dE8gy4We+2NB62JxQPMobnMUwXVX0qvdADmy8rJIgARY3AzUT8P8A= Received: by 10.115.33.1 with SMTP id l1mr563078waj.1170664724180; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:38:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.115.91.7 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 00:38:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <499c70c0702050038s7d6b729dn525f03e878dd422c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:38:44 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" To: "Don Lewis" In-Reply-To: <200702050831.l158VTx1098501@gw.catspoiler.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070204085004.GA35601@thought.org> <200702050831.l158VTx1098501@gw.catspoiler.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, kline@tao.thought.org, ade@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: devel/libtool15 doesn't build in 2 of my servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:38:58 -0000 On 2/5/07, Don Lewis wrote: > On 4 Feb, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:55:35PM -0800, Don Lewis wrote: > >> On 2 Feb, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > > >> > configure.ac:53: error: Autoconf version 2.59c or higher is required > >> > aclocal.m4:387: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from... > >> > configure.ac:53: the top level > >> > autoheader: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 > >> > at /usr/local/bin/autoheader line 163 > >> > *** Error code 1 > >> > > >> > Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool15/work/libtool-1.5.22/libltdl. > >> > >> I just ran into this same problem. I tracked the cause to some old > >> copies of the auto* tools installed under /usr/local/bin without any > >> version suffix. These files were unclaimed by any currently installed > >> port. The libtool build was using these older executables instead of the > >> newer ones with the version suffix and running into problems because the > >> tools were too old. I deleted these old files and now the libtool build > >> succeeds. > >> > > > > > > Hm, I wonder if these auto* tools interfer with my building of > > lang/php4. (On my web server, PHP fails and firefox can't display > > anything.) I see a whole slew of auto* files in /usr/local/bin. > > Do you remember which binaries you rm'd?? > > autoconf > autoheader > autom4te > autoreconf > autoscan > autoupdate > > The libtool build was failing because it was finding autoconf without > the version suffix. The files that I deleted were all several years old, > even though I did a "portupgrade -af" sometime last year. > > Try checking all of the questionable files with "pkg_info -W" so see if > they are claimed by any ports. That fixed it, thank you for your kind help :) -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/