From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 1 09:36:34 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA5A1065672 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:36:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org (cpc2-cmbg1-0-0-cust385.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com [82.21.105.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6DBF8FC1E for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:36:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan by catflap.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 4.72 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1P1c2a-0006j3-Rj for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:36:32 +0100 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 10:36:32 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: User Questions Message-ID: <20101001093632.GC26665@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: User Questions References: <20100930155915.GA26665@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3siQDZowHQqNOShm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-PGP-Fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE amd64 Sender: Daniel Bye Subject: Re: Upgrading autoconf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:36:34 -0000 --3siQDZowHQqNOShm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 12:13:28PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Daniel Bye < > freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> wrote: >=20 > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:50:22PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > I am trying this out: > > > > > > #portupgrade -f 'autoconf*' 'automake*' > > > > Try upgrading the failing ports by hand. portupgrade tends to suppress = full > > error output, making it difficult to ascertain exactly what's gone wron= g. > > > > Alternatively, I would be tempted to just uninstall autoconf* and > > automake*, > > since they will get pulled in as dependencies whenever you come to build > > another port that requires them. > > > > > Hi Dan, >=20 > Turns out the culprit was m4. Once I did 'portupgrade m4' successfully, > everything now compiled fine. The box is running FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE which= I > was ashamed to mention:-) Glad you fixed it! > Will migrate it to 8.x soon, by doing a new installation and migrating. >=20 > Or should I wait for FreeBSD-9 ?? I'd go for 8.x as soon as possible. It'll be a while before 9 is ready for production, and when it is released, it should be pretty straight forward to upgrade from 8.x using the standard buildworld cycle, provided your setup isn't too outlandish! Dan --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --3siQDZowHQqNOShm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkylq6AACgkQixf5fBYiFmrEWgCg2dll3pMqUKuI9Otlf52tNJZz A9AAni7qVyF1lyx3iqQGSJ1GJKFCzLfU =gTLZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3siQDZowHQqNOShm--