autoconf problem

[Beech Rintoul]

On Monday 22 January 2007 18:26, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:12:04PM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > On Monday 22 January 2007 17:49, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:39:57AM +0200, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:17:18 -0500
> > > >
> > > > Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:54:01AM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > > > > > While building /ftp/proftpd, pointyhat running 5.5-STABLE
> > > > > > reported the following:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > configure: creating ./config.status
> > > > > > config.status: creating Makefile
> > > > > > config.status: creating mod_wrap2.h
> > > > > > /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e
> > > > > > 's:/usr/local/share/examples/proftpd:/usr/local:'
> > > > > > /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/config.h
> > > > > > /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's:
> > > > > > -lnsl::'
> > > > > > /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/Make.rules
> > > > > > /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:' ?-e
> > > > > > 's:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:' ?
> > > > > > /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/src/proftpd.8
> > > > > > /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/utils/ftpshut.8 ?
> > > > > > /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/utils/ftpcount.1
> > > > > > ===> ?Building for proftpd-1.3.1.r2_1
> > > > > > cd . && autoconf
> > > > > > autoconf: not found
> > > > > > gmake: *** [configure] Error 127
> > > > > > *** Error code 2
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm not quite sure how to deal with this. Should I add it as a
> > > > > > BUILD_DEPENDS, or USE_AUTOTOOLS? This problem doesn't show up on
> > > > > > any local boxes I've tested on.
> > > > >
> > > > > Typically means that you touched one of the autoconf input files,
> > > > > and the makefile noticed the output files were out of date and
> > > > > tried to regenerate them.
> > > >
> > > > But why does it happen only on pointy ?
> > > >
> > > > I tested this on my box plus my i386 and amd64 tindys and I don't see
> > > > this error.
> > >
> > > Dunno, might be a timing issue.  e.g. if the files are created in the
> > > same second maybe gmake doesn't see they're OOD.  PH builds with more
> > > I/O latency so they have different timestamps.
> > >
> > > Kris
> >
> > The only build difference that I see is the following line from pointy:
> >
> > cd . && autoconf
>
> Yes, that's for the reason I said earlier.  Probably you recently
> started patching one of the Makefile.in or something.
>
> Kris

You are correct. I added a patch to fix a path problem in one of the mods. 
Thanks, mystery solved :-)

Beech

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