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Date:      Sun, 4 Feb 2007 00:50:04 -0800
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To:        Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, ade@freebsd.org, almarrie@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: devel/libtool15 doesn't build in 2 of my servers
Message-ID:  <20070204085004.GA35601@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <200702040555.l145tZZv091700@gw.catspoiler.org>
References:  <499c70c0702020919s22106697x8f58e2d630cd0eea@mail.gmail.com> <200702040555.l145tZZv091700@gw.catspoiler.org>

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On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:55:35PM -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> On  2 Feb, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have 2 servers, and libtool wont upgrade on both of them.
> > 
> > 
> > configure: creating ./config.status
> > config.status: creating Makefile
> > config.status: creating config.h
> > config.status: executing depfiles commands
> > ===>  Building for libtool-1.5.22_3
> > Making all in .
> > CONFIG_FILES=libtoolize CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/sh ./config.status
> > config.status: creating libtoolize
> > config.status: executing depfiles commands
> > chmod +x libtoolize
> > Making all in libltdl
> > cd . && /bin/sh
> > /usr/ports/devel/libtool15/work/libtool-1.5.22/libltdl/missing --run
> > aclocal-1.9a
> > aclocal-1.9a: not found
> > WARNING: `aclocal-1.9a' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
> >          you modified `acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'.  You might want
> >          to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.  Grab them from
> >          any GNU archive site.
> > cd . && /bin/sh
> > /usr/ports/devel/libtool15/work/libtool-1.5.22/libltdl/missing --run
> > autoheader
> > /usr/local/bin/gm4:configure.ac:43: bad regular expression:
> > `AS_ESCAPE([$as_me:$LINENO: WARNING: *** The top-level configure must
> > select either], [`""])': Invalid range end
> > /usr/local/bin/gm4:configure.ac:43: bad regular expression:
> > `AS_ESCAPE([$as_me: WARNING: *** The top-level configure must select
> > either], [`""])': Invalid range end
> > /usr/local/bin/gm4:configure.ac:45: bad regular expression:
> > `AS_ESCAPE([$as_me:$LINENO: error: *** Maybe you want to
> > --enable-ltdl-install?], [`""])': Invalid range end
> > /usr/local/bin/gm4:configure.ac:45: bad regular expression:
> > `AS_ESCAPE([$as_me: error: *** Maybe you want to
> > --enable-ltdl-install?], [`""])': Invalid range end
> > 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??

	tx much.

-- 
  Gary Kline  kline@thought.org   www.thought.org  Public Service Unix




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