Upgrading autoconf

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Daniel Bye <
freebsd-questions at slightlystrange.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:50:22PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > I am trying this out:
> >
> > #portupgrade -f 'autoconf*' 'automake*'
>
> Try upgrading the failing ports by hand. portupgrade tends to suppress full
> error output, making it difficult to ascertain exactly what's gone wrong.
>
> Alternatively, I would be tempted to just uninstall autoconf* and
> automake*,
> since they will get pulled in as dependencies whenever you come to build
> another port that requires them.
>
>
Hi Dan,

Turns out the culprit was m4. Once I did 'portupgrade m4' successfully,
everything now compiled fine. The box is running FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE which I
was ashamed to mention:-)
Will migrate it to 8.x soon, by doing a new installation and migrating.

Or should I wait for FreeBSD-9 ??



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