ports/139462: port devel/apr fails to build - syntax error in configure

[Michael P. Soulier]

>Number:         139462
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       port devel/apr fails to build - syntax error in configure
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Oct 10 00:50:02 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Michael P. Soulier
>Release:        6.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
msoulier at kanga:~$ uname -a
FreeBSD kanga.digitaltorque.ca 6.3-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p4 #0: Mon Sep 22 02:44:08 EDT 2008     root at kanga.digitaltorque.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
Running a portupgrade -a I see this:

checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking minix/config.h usability... no
checking minix/config.h presence... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
checking for library containing strerror... none required
checking whether system uses EBCDIC... no
performing libtool configuration...
./configure.lineno: 9753: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
*** Error code 2

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/apr.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade20091009-7480-urr2dp-0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=apr-nothr-gdbm-db42-1.3.6.1.3.8 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=1.3.6.1.3.8 make BATCH=yes
** Fix the problem and try again.
** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
        -  (p5-Text-ParseWords-3.1)
        ! audio/p5-Ogg-Vorbis-Header (p5-Ogg-Vorbis-Header-0.03_1)      (install error)
        ! devel/apr (apr-nothr-gdbm-db42-1.3.6.1.3.8)   (unknown build error)

>How-To-Repeat:
In my case, try to portupgrade. 
>Fix:


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