From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 26 00:36:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E699416A420 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:36:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BEC543D45 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:36:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i11so677287nzi for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:36:35 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=qy6G1sIyqt8637FQk/7LAoWX8QSmHEVVl+7ImGVjeOmTDutJZuCdTNdukF4Yo44+CR4tzDDp+QRxcbNIfu6DD5ycGd62Zwlex5yE9N8UTox+0WQD/LtQrvvmEzJfWVMlDpOgX3uNOUMRWGilQe9Ur/K+o1gXmNLJ87ZdwIRFtdI= Received: by 10.35.119.11 with SMTP id w11mr1720869pym; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:29:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ( [71.102.39.181]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id f19sm2469546pyf.2006.02.25.16.29.39; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:29:40 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: Gerard Seibert , freebsd-questions Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:29:36 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602251629.37113.ringworm01@gmail.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Unable to find 'automake' X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:36:37 -0000 On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:23, Gerard Seibert wrote: > Using FreeBSD 5.4 > > While building 'portmanager', I noticed this error message: > > Making all in libMG > Making all in src > cd ../.. && /bin/sh > /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager/work/portmanager-0.4.1/missing --run > automake --gnu libMG/src/Makefile > automake: not found > WARNING: `automake' is missing on your system. You should only need it if > you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'. > You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages. > Grab them from any GNU archive site. > > I checked the /var/db/pkg directory and found this listing: > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Feb 22 21:26 automake-1.4.6_2/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Feb 22 21:26 automake-1.5_2,1/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Feb 22 21:26 automake-1.9.6/ > > Since the build finished without and problems, I assume that it is a > harmless error message. I was wondering though why it was displayed > however? Am I looking in the wrong place for the 'automake' program? I > have Perl 5.8.8 installed if that means anything. > > Thanks! There is no reason for automake to run if nothing in the ports package has been modified. I think it is safe to ignore. There is a recent change to portmanager in FreeBSD that isn't by me, if anything in that change effected the files in the warning notice that might be the explanation. -Mike