Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:16:58 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: nightrecon@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: aclocal-1.12: error: 'configure.ac' Message-ID: <20121216151658.4413edd0.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <kajsb6$e6h$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <web-14278689@mail-be04.sovam.com> <kajsb6$e6h$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 02:13:52 -0500, Michael Powell wrote:
> Oleg simonoff wrote:
>
> > Hi to all!
> > Want to to ask the unix community about my problem. Don`t know what
> > to do.....
> > racking my brain over ...
> > The system freeBSD 8.2
> > Got some trouble with compilation portupgrade-2.4.9.9,2
> >
> > /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade sudo make install
> > ...........................
> > ===> Configuring for ruby-1.8.7.370,1
> > /usr/bin/touch /opt/ports/lang/ruby18/work/ruby-1.8.7-p370/configure
> > aclocal-1.12: error: 'configure.ac' or 'configure.in' is required
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /opt/ports/lang/ruby18javascript:doImageSubmit('Send').
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /opt/ports/lang/ruby18.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /opt/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /opt/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade.
> ^^^^^^
>
> Don't know if this matters, never tried it that way - this is FreeBSD, not
> Linux. FreeBSD is not some kind of Linux.
With setting $PORTSDIR it should be possible to have a valid (!)
ports tree in any location you want. See "man 7 ports" for details.
> With that said, the ports tree usually lives under /usr/ports. No idea why
> it would show up under /opt, except as some carry over Linuxism.
Probably you aren't old enough to remember that /opt is not
a Linuxism, but a Solarism, Solarisism. It expresses the
optimistic attitude that the content of this subtree will
work as expected. :-)
> You
> probably need to wipe the Linuxism and start over as a FreeBSD user.
There's nothing wrong with /opt, but I've never found it would
be a good place to put the ports tree in. I'm (ab)using /opt
myself for software that I manage outside of the ports tree,
completely manually: it's basically scripts in /opt/bin, some
specific printer filters in /opt/libexec (called by printcap),
and few "self-contained" subtrees of non-ports stuff. In this
way, it does not touch the main system.
However, having the complete (!) ports in /usr/ports should
avoid trouble. What's confusing here is the fact that the OP
seems to have a "mixed" installation.
The prompt reads:
> > /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade sudo make install
But the error messages say:
> > /usr/bin/touch /opt/ports/lang/ruby18/work/ruby-1.8.7-p370/configure
So there seems to be both /usr/ports and /opt/ports... ???
But finally:
> > Stop in /opt/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade.
Is there some symlinking issue opt<->usr?
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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