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Subject: Re: Automake won't build.
From: Jason Garrett <kingedgar@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Jason Garrett <kingedgar@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am configuring a new system to run FreeBSD. I was in the middle of
> installing lxde-meta which depends on automake. This is where the install
> bails, and I'll include my uname -ar. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> FreeBSD something.com 9.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #0 r253377:
> Tue Jul 16 02:21:15 CDT 2013     root@something.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>  amd64
>
>
>
> install-info --quiet /usr/local/info/automake.info /usr/local/info/dir
> install-info: /usr/local/info/dir: empty file
> *** [add-plist-info] Error code 1
>
> TIA,
>
> Jason
>


The solution for this was to remove /usr/local/info/dir  and the port
installed fine. Any ideas on why this happens?