Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 12:05:23 -0500 From: AlanE <alane@geeksrus.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, jeh@FreeBSD.ORG, dinoex@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports missing autoheader dependency Message-ID: <20021225170523.GB12125@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <20021225063136.A18893@citusc.usc.edu> References: <20021225062317.A18848@citusc.usc.edu> <20021225063136.A18893@citusc.usc.edu>
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On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 06:31:36AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 06:23:17AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> The following ports are failing because they cannot find autoheader. >> Can someone please investigate? > >The subject of the mail is misleading..autoheader is part of autoconf, >which is being correctly included by (at least most of) these ports. >Somehow it is not able to find it at compile-time though (probably a >path issue). > >Kris > There is a known failure mode where attempting to run one of the old auto* programs in a forced subshell of a subshell of make, as in @(autoheader), will fail, because the PATH adjustment I've made gets lost when the additional layer of shell is interposed. -- AlanE (Alan Eldridge), who likes fixing weird distributed systems bugs. Unix/C(++) IT Pro for 20 yrs, desperately seeking employment in NYC. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.rtf) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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