From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 09:08:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A2116A4CF for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:08:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from email.eurowings.com (email.eurowings.com [193.96.182.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F38BB43D4C for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:08:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from h.kipp@eurowings.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by email.eurowings.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C0C14E22F; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:08:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eurowings.com (unknown [10.100.24.81]) by email.eurowings.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32DCB14E232; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:08:00 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <415140EF.9080700@eurowings.com> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:07:59 +0200 From: Holger Kipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040602 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at eurowings.com cc: hk@alogis.com Subject: autoconf problems on 5.3-BETA4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:08:04 -0000 Hello, I have hit a very interesting problem: (first posted to stable - sorry for that) while trying to build print/apsfilter, textproc/intltool is also build (at least it is trying to do so) with the following neverending loop: ---8<---snip---------------------------------------------- /usr/local/bin/bash ./config.status --recheck running /usr/local/bin/bash ./configure --libdir=/usr/local/libdata --prefix=/usr/local --build=i386-portbld-freebsd5.3 build_alias=i386-portbld-freebsd5.3 --no-create --no-recursion checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... no checking for nawk... nawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... ok configure: creating ./config.status /usr/local/bin/bash ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating doc-i18n-tool/Makefile config.status: creating intltool-extract.in config.status: creating intltool-merge.in config.status: creating intltool-prepare config.status: creating intltool-unicodify config.status: creating intltool-update.in config.status: creating intltool.spec config.status: creating intltoolize config.status: creating tests/Makefile config.status: creating tests/cases/Makefile config.status: creating tests/results/Makefile config.status: creating tests/selftest.pl config.status: creating xml-i18n-toolize cd . && /bin/sh /usr/ports/textproc/intltool/work/intltool-0.31.2/missing --run aclocal-1.8 aclocal-1.8: not found WARNING: `aclocal-1.8' is missing on your system. You should only need it if you modified `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'. You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages. Grab them from any GNU archive site. cd . && /bin/sh /usr/ports/textproc/intltool/work/intltool-0.31.2/missing --run automake-1.8 --gnu automake-1.8: not found WARNING: `automake-1.8' is missing on your system. You should only need it if you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'. You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages. Grab them from any GNU archive site. cd . && /bin/sh /usr/ports/textproc/intltool/work/intltool-0.31.2/missing --run autoconf autoconf: not found WARNING: `autoconf' is missing on your system. You should only need it if you modified `configure.in'. You might want to install the `Autoconf' and `GNU m4' packages. Grab them from any GNU archive site. /bin/sh ./config.status --recheck ---8<----snip------------------------------------------------------ This is on FreeBSD 5.3-BETA4 #4: Tue Sep 14 15:00:33 CEST 2004. I had installed: automake-1.4.6_1 (due to other port-dependencies) After additionally intalling - devel/automake18 - devel/autoconf259 building intltool had no furhter problems. The infinite loop I encountered with textproc/intltool also happens with obviously all other ports apsfilter depends on, eg devel/libbonobo graphics/libgnomecanvas devel/libIDL devel/ORBit2 etc., all with a message similar to: ---8<-----------snip------------------------------------------------ configure: creating ./config.status cd . && /usr/local/bin/bash ./config.status Makefile config.status: creating Makefile cd . && /bin/sh /usr/ports/accessibility/gail/work/gail-1.6.6/missing --run aclocal-1.7 aclocal-1.7: not found WARNING: `aclocal-1.7' is missing on your system. You should only need it if you modified `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'. You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages. Grab them from any GNU archive site. cd . && \ /bin/sh /usr/ports/accessibility/gail/work/gail-1.6.6/missing --run automake-1.7 --gnu Makefile automake-1.7: not found WARNING: `automake-1.7' is missing on your system. You should only need it if you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'. You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages. Grab them from any GNU archive site. cd . && /bin/sh /usr/ports/accessibility/gail/work/gail-1.6.6/missing --run autoconf autoconf: not found WARNING: `autoconf' is missing on your system. You should only need it if you modified `configure.in'. You might want to install the `Autoconf' and `GNU m4' packages. Grab them from any GNU archive site. /bin/sh ./config.status --recheck ---8<-----------snip------------------------------------------------- (some won't output this, but just go within a loop around forever) If I press ctrl-C, change to the offending directory/port - in this case /usr/ports/accessibility/gail and do a make port there, it just plain succeeds (even though I only have autoconf14 and autoconf18 installed). Any ideas? Or am I just plain stupid, not seeing the obvious? Regards, Holger Kipp