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Subject: Re: autoconf failure
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On Friday 05 October 2007 11:19:55 Barry Byrne wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chad Perrin
> > Sent: 04 October 2007 00:35
> > To: FreeBSD Questions
> > Subject: autoconf failure
> >
> > First, portversion reports as follows:
> >
> >   # portversion -v|grep -v =
> >   autoconf-2.53_4             <  needs updating (port has 2.61_2)
> >   autoconf-2.59_3             <  needs updating (port has 2.61_2)
> >
> > Then, /usr/ports/UPDATING fails to note anything about the
> > new autoconf
> > version other than the following:
> >
> >   The ports tree has been migrated to the latest version of autoconf,
> >   2.61.  Versions 2.53 and 2.59 were declared obsolete and removed.
> >

> Had the same thought's here - don't know for certain that it's the right
> thing to do, but I did:
>
> cd /usr/ports/devel/autoconf261
> make deinstall
> make reinstall

It's simpler then that:
pkg_delete -f autoconf-2.5[39]*

-- 
Mel