weird ports errors on 5.3-BETA5

[Kenneth Culver]

Hi,
I seem to be having a lot of weird errors on FreeBSD-BETA5 trying to compile
certain ports:

===>  Configuring for ruby-1.8.2.p2_1
/usr/bin/touch /usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/ruby-1.8.2/configure
cp: /usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/ruby-1.8.2
/usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/ruby-1.8.2/config.guess: No such file or directory
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/lang/ruby18.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade.

Getting rid of
.if defined(GNU_CONFIGURE)
        @CONFIG_GUESS_DIRS=$$(${FIND} ${WRKDIR} -name config.guess -o -name conf
ig.sub \
                | ${XARGS} -n 1 ${DIRNAME}); \
        for _D in $${CONFIG_GUESS_DIRS}; do \
                ${CP} -f ${TEMPLATES}/config.guess $${_D}/config.guess; \
                ${CHMOD} a+rx $${_D}/config.guess; \
            ${CP} -f ${TEMPLATES}/config.sub $${_D}/config.sub; \
                ${CHMOD} a+rx $${_D}/config.sub; \
        done
.endif

from bsd.port.mk solves that problem for all the ports that have that problem...
but I'm wondering what's causing the problem in the first place. Any ideas? I
have 2 machines doing this now.

Ken