ports/106997: M4 port dies in building with info errors
Tom Russo
russo at bogodyn.org
Thu Dec 21 11:30:28 UTC 2006
>Number: 106997
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: M4 port dies in building with info errors
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Dec 21 11:30:21 GMT 2006
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Tom Russo
>Release: FreeBSD 5.5-Stable
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD bogodyn.org 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #0: Sun Jul 30 16:36:42 MDT 2006 russo at bogodyn.org:/users2/obj/usr/src/sys/BOGODYN i386
>Description:
For at least several weeks I have been unable to portupgrade m4 on two machines (both running 5.5 of similar vintages). This interferes with portupgrading gnu-autoconf, gnu-automake, and bison, among others.
This is the error message toward the end of the make, when it fails:
-------------------
Making all in doc
Updating ./version.texi
restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && am__cwd=`pwd` && cd . && rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && if (/bin/sh /usr/ports/devel/m4/work/m4-1.4.8/missing --run makeinfo --no-split --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then for f in ./m4.info ./m4.info-[0-9] ./m4.info-[0-9][0-9] ./m4.i[0-9] ./m4.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 /bin/sh /usr/ports/devel/m4/work/m4-1.4.8/missing --run makeinfo --no-split -I . -o ./m4.info ./m4.texinfo; then rc=0; cd .; else rc=$?; cd . && $restore $backupdir/* `echo "././m4.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; fi; rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
./m4.texinfo:451: Unknown command `'.
./m4.texinfo:1999: Unknown command `'.
./m4.texinfo:2001: Unknown command `'.
makeinfo: Removing output file `./m4.info' due to errors; use --force to preserve.
*** Error code 1
>How-To-Repeat:
Do a make in /usr/ports/devel/m4.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
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