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From: Johan Svensson <johan@loxley.se>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Autotools fails unexpectedly when installing
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>Number:         114990
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Autotools fails unexpectedly when installing
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jul 28 11:30:07 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:    Sat Jul 28 18:12:59 GMT 2007
>Last-Modified:  Sat Jul 28 18:12:59 GMT 2007
>Originator:     Johan Svensson
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.2 Stable
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD gatekeeper.loxley.se 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Mon Jan 15 22:39:01 CET 2007     loxley@gatekeeper.loxley.se:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GATEKEEPER  i386
>Description:
First of all, I followed the steps in /usr/ports/UPDATING when trying to update
my autoconf and automake ports to the latest versions, but it failed with
error. So i then deinstalled all autoconf* and automake* ports including
wrappers.

I thought of just installing them again via the autotools port and there I get
an error again. Output follows below:

===>  Configuring for automake-1.6.3
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
configure: error: Autoconf 2.52 or better is required
===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
Please report the problem to ade@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
"/usr/ports/devel/automake16/work/automake-1.6.3/config.log" including the
output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to
provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls
/var/db/pkg`).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/automake16.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/autotools.
>How-To-Repeat:
Deinstall all automake* and autoconf* including wrappers. Then make install in /usr/ports/devel/autotools

I guess people get this error when upgrading to the latest versions of automake and autoconf or using autotools port.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: pav 
State-Changed-When: Sat Jul 28 18:12:15 UTC 2007 
State-Changed-Why:  
Already fixed 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114990 
>Unformatted:
