Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 00:31:29 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: kline@tao.thought.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, almarrie@gmail.com, ade@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: devel/libtool15 doesn't build in 2 of my servers Message-ID: <200702050831.l158VTx1098501@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <20070204085004.GA35601@thought.org>
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On 4 Feb, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:55:35PM -0800, Don Lewis wrote: >> On 2 Feb, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: >> > configure.ac:53: error: Autoconf version 2.59c or higher is required >> > aclocal.m4:387: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from... >> > configure.ac:53: the top level >> > autoheader: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 >> > at /usr/local/bin/autoheader line 163 >> > *** Error code 1 >> > >> > Stop in /usr/ports/devel/libtool15/work/libtool-1.5.22/libltdl. >> >> I just ran into this same problem. I tracked the cause to some old >> copies of the auto* tools installed under /usr/local/bin without any >> version suffix. These files were unclaimed by any currently installed >> port. The libtool build was using these older executables instead of the >> newer ones with the version suffix and running into problems because the >> tools were too old. I deleted these old files and now the libtool build >> succeeds. >> > > > Hm, I wonder if these auto* tools interfer with my building of > lang/php4. (On my web server, PHP fails and firefox can't display > anything.) I see a whole slew of auto* files in /usr/local/bin. > Do you remember which binaries you rm'd?? autoconf autoheader autom4te autoreconf autoscan autoupdate The libtool build was failing because it was finding autoconf without the version suffix. The files that I deleted were all several years old, even though I did a "portupgrade -af" sometime last year. Try checking all of the questionable files with "pkg_info -W" so see if they are claimed by any ports.
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