Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 23:15:32 -0500 (EST) From: David Myers <dcmyers@access.digex.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Gnu configure problems (mail problems too!) Message-ID: <199608170415.XAA20531@access2.digex.net>
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Folks -- sorry for the continuing problems with my mail messages. They're getting truncated, apparently because the freebsd.org mail server doesn't like my home-grown mail software. That's a separate problem, and I hope you'll excuse the multiple messages. I apologize for that. Anyway, this message should be better, as I'm going through elm directly from my shell account. While attempting to compile flex (a necessary first step in compiling Postgres95), I run into a bunch of error messages from the GNU configure utility. Here's a sample: /usr/ports/devel/flex >make Checksums OK. ===> Configuring for flex-2.5.3 . .. README NEWS COPYING INSTALL FlexLexer.h configure.in conf.in Makefile.in mkskel.sh flex.skl flexdef.h version.h ccl.c dfa.c ecs.c gen.c main.c misc.c nfa.c parse.y scan.l skel.c sym.c tblcmp.c yylex.c libmain.c libyywrap.c MISC flex.1 install.sh mkinstalldirs configure initscan.c config.log confdefs.h configure: error: missing argument to -- *** Error code 1 The strange thing about this is that I've used GNU configure many times. In fact, I've never seen any of the FreeBSD port packages fail like this -- a simple "make" always works. I'm not sure what has changed. Does anybody have any suggestions? Alternatively, if someone can point me to a binary version of Postgres95, I'd be very happy (although still mystified as to why configure fails). Thanks in advance, and again I apologize for the mail screw-up. -David.
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