From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Dec 25 9: 7:31 2002 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 5F75F37B405; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 09:07:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0C043EC5; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 09:07:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBPH5WEf012267; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 12:05:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBPH5Nk9012266; Wed, 25 Dec 2002 12:05:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 12:05:23 -0500 From: AlanE To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Kris Kennaway , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, jeh@FreeBSD.ORG, dinoex@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports missing autoheader dependency Message-ID: <20021225170523.GB12125@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Reply-To: alane@geeksrus.net Mail-Followup-To: Kris Kennaway , Kris Kennaway , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, jeh@FreeBSD.ORG, dinoex@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021225062317.A18848@citusc.usc.edu> <20021225063136.A18893@citusc.usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021225063136.A18893@citusc.usc.edu> X-message-flag: Every program expands until it can send mail. Except Exchange Server. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 06:31:36AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 06:23:17AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> The following ports are failing because they cannot find autoheader. >> Can someone please investigate? > >The subject of the mail is misleading..autoheader is part of autoconf, >which is being correctly included by (at least most of) these ports. >Somehow it is not able to find it at compile-time though (probably a >path issue). > >Kris > There is a known failure mode where attempting to run one of the old auto* programs in a forced subshell of a subshell of make, as in @(autoheader), will fail, because the PATH adjustment I've made gets lost when the additional layer of shell is interposed. -- AlanE (Alan Eldridge), who likes fixing weird distributed systems bugs. Unix/C(++) IT Pro for 20 yrs, desperately seeking employment in NYC. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.rtf) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message