From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 00:08:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF0916A615 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 00:08:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx1.parodius.com (mx1.parodius.com [64.62.145.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A0C343D64 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 00:08:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6A54E5D8F; Mon, 22 May 2006 17:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:08:10 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060523000810.GA77461@pentarou.parodius.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <200605221543.02228.beech@alaskaparadise.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200605221543.02228.beech@alaskaparadise.com> X-PGP-Key: http://jdc.parodius.com/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Subject: Re: Help with configure.in X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 00:08:14 -0000 On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:43:00PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > I added the patch with a version check for 4.x in the makefile.The patch > applies cleanly, but now when it gets to the build stage it bails with the > following: > > ===> Building for proftpd-1.3.0_2 > cd . && autoconf > autoconf: not found > gmake: *** [configure] Error 127 > *** Error code 2 > > What am I doing wrong? GNU autoconf is a nightmare -- none of the versions are compatible with one another. So, the way we dealt with this in the FreeBSD world was to "individualise" each version: drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 9 Mar 18:35 devel/autoconf213/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 5 May 03:57 devel/autoconf253/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 5 May 03:57 devel/autoconf259/ Try something like `autoconf259` instead. There's no generic `autoconf` because of the versioning nightmare... :-) HTH, FWIW... -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |