Problem building GCC - Postfix install from ports failed

[Danny Edge]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Danny Edge <nocmonkey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was advised to try this again. New install FreeBSD 7.2 R, installing
>> Postfix from cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix && make install clean
>>
>> I receive the following error near the end of the install:
>>
>> checking whether -fkeep-inline-functions is supported... yes
>> updating cache ./config.cache
>> creating ./config.status
>> creating Makefile
>> ===>  Building for gcc-4.2.5_20090325
>> cd ./..//gcc-4.2-20090325 && autogen Makefile.def
>> autogen: not found
>> gmake: *** [..//gcc-4.2-20090325/Makefile.in] Error 127
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/ports/lang/gcc42.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/ports/mail/addresses.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/ports/mail.
>> mx#
>>
>
> I guess gcc42 requires /usr/ports/devel/autogen
>
> Looks like the port is missing a dependency for some reason.  Try
> installing that port, and resume your gcc build.  If it works you could file
> a bug report.
>
>
Installing the autogen port seemed to have solved the issue. Thank you!


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