ports/118966: Configure cannot find path_dps.m4 during mutt-devel configuration.

[Václav Haisman]

The following reply was made to PR ports/118966; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=E1clav_Haisman?= <v.haisman at sh.cvut.cz>
To: "Schweigert, Udo" <Udo.Schweigert at siemens.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/118966: Configure cannot find path_dps.m4 during	mutt-devel
 configuration.
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:36:56 +0100

 Schweigert, Udo wrote:
 > On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 09:21:09 +0000, Vaclav Haisman wrote:
 >> Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mutt-devel. ** Command failed [exit code
 >> 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade.29013.10 env
 >> UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=mutt-devel-1.5.16_3
 >> UPGRADE_PORT_VER=1.5.16_3 make ** Fix the problem and try again.
 >> 
 > 
 > This is not reproducable here and is a problem with autoconf/automake
 >  installation. Please deinstall all autoconf/automake ports and try
 > again.
 > 
 > Best regards Udo Schweigert
 This is what I had:
 
 `--# pkg_glob 'autoconf*' 'automake*'
 autoconf-2.61_2
 autoconf-wrapper-20071109
 automake-1.5_4,1
 automake-1.6.3
 automake-1.9.6_2
 automake-wrapper-20071109
 
 I did pkg_deinstall -f 'autoconf*' 'automake*' and then again
 portupgrade -NRv mail/mutt-devel and after it installed the auto* ports
 again I got the same error.
 
 [...some minutes later...]
 
 I have dug deeper and found that line
 /usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:172 is "dnl
 include(path_dps.m4)". The dnl at the beginning of the line IIRC
 signifies a comment. The m4 preprocessor should just ignore it AFAIK but
 despite that it tries to include the file using the directive in the
 comment. But I am not m4 preprocessor expert. Somebody with more
 knowledge about m4 should analyze this.
 
 I have also found that the file path_dps.m4 comes from the dgs-0.5.9.1_5
 package, so it is not directly a mutt-devel problem. Deinstalling the
 dgs-0.5.9.1_5 package fixes the mutt-devel build for me.
 
 In the light of all this it is either a bug in the paths_dps.m4 file and
 thus dgs-0.5.9.1_5 maintainer should be notified or it is a bug in m4,
 though that seems a lot less likely.
 
 --
 VH