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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:43:55 +0200
From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
To: Alexander Kozyrev <ceo@postmet.com>
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Subject: Re: Script "configure" failed unexpectedly
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Hello Alexander,

thanks for the report.

* Alexander Kozyrev wrote on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:22:46PM CEST:
> It was created by GNU Automake configure 1.10.1, which was
> generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.  Invocation command line was
> 
>   $ ./configure --program-suffix=-1.10 --prefix=/usr/local
> --mandir=/usr/local/man --infodir=/usr/local/info/
> --build=i386-portbld-freebsd6.1
[...]
> configure:1704: checking build system type
> configure:1722: result: i386-portbld-freebsd6.1
[...]
> configure:2325: checking whether autoconf is installed
> configure:2330: eval /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.62 --version
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.62

> configure:2333: $? = 0
> configure:2341: result: yes
> configure:2351: checking whether autoconf works
> configure:2358: cd conftest && eval /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.62 -o /dev/null conftest.ac
> exec: /usr/local/bin/autom4te-2.62: not found

So, where is autom4te-2.62, and why was it not installed alongside
autoconf-2.62?

Looks like a ports packaging issue to me.

Cheers,
Ralf