From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 03:03:27 2003 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 E09EE37B401; Thu, 15 May 2003 03:03:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heechee.tobez.org (port485.ds1-ry.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.233.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C27D943FA3; Thu, 15 May 2003 03:03:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tobez@tobez.org) Received: by heechee.tobez.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BA2B5175D4; Thu, 15 May 2003 12:03:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:03:24 +0200 From: Anton Berezin To: Scott Sewall Message-ID: <20030515100324.GB15336@heechee.tobez.org> Mail-Followup-To: Anton Berezin , Scott Sewall , current@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org References: <3EC2CEE5.2010405@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EC2CEE5.2010405@ix.netcom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble building expect 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: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:03:28 -0000 On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 04:19:01PM -0700, Scott Sewall wrote: > > I'm having some trouble building the expect port on current. Any pointers > would be appreciated. > > I received the following error building the expect port: > > ===> Configuring for expect-5.38.0_1 > configuring Expect 5.38.0 > checking for autoconf... no > checking configure up to date... no > configure: warning: ./configure appears to be old (./configure.in and/or > ./Makef > ile.in are newer) and the autoconf program to fix this situation was not > found. > If you've no idea what this means, enter the command "touch > ./configure" and re > start ./configure. Most likely your system time is very far in the past (a few months at least). If it is so, please set the date to a more reasonable value and do make clean before trying to build the port again. > ===> Building for expect-5.38.0_1 > make: cannot open Makefile. > *** Error code 2 > > Stop in /usr/ports/lang/expect. > ===> Building for expect-5.38.0_1 > make: cannot open Makefile. > *** Error code 2 > > I touched ./work/expect-5.38/configure, but continue to get the > following error: > ===> Building for expect-5.38.0_1 > make: cannot open Makefile. > *** Error code 2 > > Stop in /usr/ports/lang/expect. > > > Some specifics about my system: > radagast# uname -a > FreeBSD radagast 5.1-BETA FreeBSD 5.1-BETA #1: Mon May 12 15:37:06 PDT > 2003 root@radagast:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC sparc64 > > Last sup'd src and ports 5/12 \Anton. -- You shouldn't be intimidated by this issue at all, since Perl is your friend. -- Apache mod_perl guide