autom4te: not found in FreeBSD 8.1RC1 - please help.

[Garrett Cooper]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Sam Wun <swun2010 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With FreeBSD 8.1 RC1,
>
> I got the following error when building cyrus-sasl2 in the Ports:
> ....
> configure: creating ./config.status
> autom4te --language=m4sh -B libltdl/config libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh
>> libltdl/config/ltmain.in
> autom4te: not found
> *** Error code 127

Your installed packages are messed up, or (less likely) a dependency
is missing in the port Makefile:

$ pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/autom4te
/usr/local/bin/autom4te was installed by package autoconf-wrapper-20071109

> Can anyone tell me how to resolve this problem?

Install autoconf, and things will magically work better.

My guess is that it will resolve your other issue as well.

It would be nice to know how things broke on your system, but my guess
(since I've done a number of installs post-8.x) is that it is due to
something in your environment being a bit wonky.

HTH,
-Garrett