multimedia/mpeg4ip config/build failure (Fixed)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:04:28PM -0500, Randy Pratt wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:43:09 +0000
> Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:40:23PM -0500, Randy Pratt wrote:
> > 
> > > aclocal.m4:65: error: Autoconf version 2.54 or higher is required
> > > aclocal.m4:65: the top level
> > 
> > > autoconf-2.53_3/
> > > autoconf-2.59_2/
> > 
> > Try removing the deprecated autoconf-2.53_3/.
> > 
> > Kris
> 
> As it turns out, Kris was correct in his diagnosis.  I did
> pkg_delete for autoconf-2.53_3, but oddly it didn't remove the
> associated files in /usr/local/bin/ .
> 
> I manually moved:
> 
>   -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   6191 May  3  2004 autoconf
>   -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   6752 May  3  2004 autoheader
>   -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  31250 May  3  2004 autom4te
>   -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  10895 May  3  2004 autoreconf
>   -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  15025 May  3  2004 autoscan
>   -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  32134 May  3  2004 autoupdate
> 
> to a temporary junk directory.

Actually those aren't the files from autoconf-2.53_3, but a stock
vendor version of autoconf that was probably installed by hand on the
system (the FreeBSD ports install files named autoconf253, etc, to
allow multiple versions to coexist).

> The build now progresses to the exact error noted in
> PR ports/73867 .  I applied the patch from that PR
> and went back thru the process described in
> /usr/ports/UPDATING and the update completed
> successfully.  Much joy ;-)

Glad to hear it.

Kris
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