From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jan 10 16:56:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mailout10.sul.t-online.com (mailout10.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0A4037B405 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:56:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd11.sul.t-online.de by mailout10.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 16Opzn-0005Aq-01; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:56:35 +0100 Received: from spirit.corecode.ath.cx (320050403952-0001@[217.224.173.146]) by fmrl11.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16Opzm-0I4YISC; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:56:34 +0100 Received: from elevation.zuhause.stoert.net (elevation.zuhause.stoert.net [192.168.66.46]) by spirit.corecode.ath.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0B0uUg14946; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:56:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from corecode@elevation.zuhause.stoert.net) Received: (from corecode@localhost) by elevation.zuhause.stoert.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0B0uTF48963; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:56:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from corecode) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:56:25 +0100 From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" To: Mike Heffner Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: configure scripts appear broken with new autoconf Message-Id: <20020111015625.0903e417.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.6claws43 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GUflT)tIo/1uv5=." X-Sender: 320050403952-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --GUflT)tIo/1uv5=. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:22:23 -0500 (EST) Mike Heffner wrote: [...] > However, when the configure script reaches this point, $target is an > empty string, so $lt_target becomes an empty string. Originally, in > configure scripts generated with autoconf-2.13, the $target variable > was initialized to 'NONE' and then was reset if the '--target' option > was specified. However, configure scripts generated with > autoconf-2.5.2 don't initialize $target to 'NONE', and therefore the > above code segment sets$lt_target to a zero-length string if the > '--target' option isn't specified. > > Has anyone else encountered this problem? I'm hoping this could be > fixed before 4.5-rel, because it means that using autoconf outside of > the ports system is broken. This doesn't appear to effect building > ports from within the ports system, because I believe the ports system > manually specifies the target when running configure (but I might be > wrong...). i had the same issue here while building from some cvs sources. i fixed it temporarily by adding --target=i386 but thought about how tgz release engineers might do that :) i didn't check how ports are building with that but i also think this needs to be corrected. cheerz corecode -- /"\ http://corecode.ath.cx/ \ / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign / \ Against HTML Mail and News --GUflT)tIo/1uv5=. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8Pjg9r5S+dk6z85oRAiWbAJ0UiUe5RrfNou976bzGEwt9GyKAzACcDEWs v8VV4ai6El8PswyqeSQLIX8= =fBJz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GUflT)tIo/1uv5=.-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message