Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:30:36 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Subject: Re: Help with configure.in Message-ID: <200605221630.38308.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <20060523000810.GA77461@pentarou.parodius.com> References: <200605221543.02228.beech@alaskaparadise.com> <20060523000810.GA77461@pentarou.parodius.com>
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On Monday 22 May 2006 16:08, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > 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... I'm not sure how to add that into the makefile. Autoconf needs to be called after configure.in is patched. With the stock configure.in autoconf doesn't get called as above it just goes straight into the build. The porter's Handbook wasn't a lot of help. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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