automake19: texinfo error during build

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-01-13 10:31, Mahmoud Labadi <mlabadi at hadara.ps> wrote:
> thank for your quick response..
> I did that because I got this error during making install for mutt
> package so I tried to check automake
> please advise
>
> ===>   mutt-1.4.2.2 depends on executable in : sgmlfmt - found
> ===>   mutt-1.4.2.2 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/automake19 - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/automake19 in
> /usr/ports/devel/automake19
> ===>  Building for automake-1.9.6
> Making all in .
> Making all in doc
> restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" &&  am__cwd=`pwd` && cd . &&  rm -rf
> $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir &&  if (makeinfo --no-split --version)
> >/dev/null 2>&1; then  for f in ./automake19.info
> ./automake19.info-[0-9] ./automake19.info-[0-9][0-9] ./automake19.i[0-9]
> ./automake19.i[0-9][0-9]; do  if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir;
> restore=mv; else :; fi;  done;  else :; fi &&  cd "$am__cwd";  if
> makeinfo --no-split   -I .  -o ./automake19.info ./automake19.texi;
> then  rc=0;  cd .;  else  rc=$?;  cd . &&  $restore $backupdir/* `echo
> "././automake19.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`;  fi;  rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
> ./automake19.texi:8788: Unknown command `tie'.
> ./automake19.texi:8788: Misplaced {.
> ./automake19.texi:8788: Misplaced }.
> [...]

That's odd.  I have automake19 installed here, and it doesn't fail with
this error message, when I rebuild it:

    keramida at kobe:/home/keramida$ pkg_info | grep automake
    automake-1.9.6      GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.9)
    keramida at kobe:/home/keramida$

On 2007-01-13 10:43, "Jos? G. Juanino" <jjuanino at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe I am wrong also, but I suspect you are using makeinfo binary
> from print/texinfo port instead from base system, and you have
> /usr/local/bin in your PATH before /usr/bin (bad idea in that case).

That's possible.

Mahmoud, can you show us your PATH and other environment settings?
This should be easy to do with:

    root# env | sort