autoconf problems on 5.3-BETA4

[Holger Kipp]

Hello,

I have hit a very interesting problem:
(first posted to stable - sorry for that)

while trying to build
print/apsfilter, textproc/intltool is also build (at least it is
trying to do so) with the following neverending loop:

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/usr/local/bin/bash ./config.status --recheck
running /usr/local/bin/bash ./configure  --libdir=/usr/local/libdata
--prefix=/usr/local --build=i386-portbld-freebsd5.3
build_alias=i386-portbld-freebsd5.3  --no-create --no-recursion
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... ok
configure: creating ./config.status
   /usr/local/bin/bash ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating doc-i18n-tool/Makefile
config.status: creating intltool-extract.in
config.status: creating intltool-merge.in
config.status: creating intltool-prepare
config.status: creating intltool-unicodify
config.status: creating intltool-update.in
config.status: creating intltool.spec
config.status: creating intltoolize
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/cases/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/results/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/selftest.pl
config.status: creating xml-i18n-toolize
cd . && /bin/sh
/usr/ports/textproc/intltool/work/intltool-0.31.2/missing --run aclocal-1.8
aclocal-1.8: not found
WARNING: `aclocal-1.8' is missing on your system.  You should only need
it if
           you modified `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'.  You might want
           to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.  Grab them from
           any GNU archive site.
   cd . && /bin/sh
/usr/ports/textproc/intltool/work/intltool-0.31.2/missing --run
automake-1.8 --gnu
automake-1.8: not found
WARNING: `automake-1.8' is missing on your system.  You should only need
it if
           you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'.
           You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.
           Grab them from any GNU archive site.
cd . && /bin/sh
/usr/ports/textproc/intltool/work/intltool-0.31.2/missing --run autoconf
autoconf: not found
WARNING: `autoconf' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
           you modified `configure.in'.  You might want to install the
           `Autoconf' and `GNU m4' packages.  Grab them from any GNU
           archive site.
/bin/sh ./config.status --recheck
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This is on FreeBSD 5.3-BETA4 #4: Tue Sep 14 15:00:33 CEST 2004.

I had installed: automake-1.4.6_1 (due to other port-dependencies)
After additionally intalling
- devel/automake18
- devel/autoconf259
building intltool had no furhter problems.

The infinite loop I encountered with textproc/intltool also happens
with obviously all other ports apsfilter depends on, eg
    devel/libbonobo
    graphics/libgnomecanvas
    devel/libIDL
    devel/ORBit2
etc., all with a message similar to:

---8<-----------snip------------------------------------------------
configure: creating ./config.status
cd . && /usr/local/bin/bash ./config.status Makefile
config.status: creating Makefile
cd . && /bin/sh /usr/ports/accessibility/gail/work/gail-1.6.6/missing --run aclocal-1.7
aclocal-1.7: not found
WARNING: `aclocal-1.7' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
           you modified `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'.  You might want
           to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.  Grab them from
           any GNU archive site.
cd . && \
    /bin/sh /usr/ports/accessibility/gail/work/gail-1.6.6/missing --run automake-1.7 --gnu  Makefile
automake-1.7: not found
WARNING: `automake-1.7' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
           you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'.
           You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.
           Grab them from any GNU archive site.
cd . && /bin/sh /usr/ports/accessibility/gail/work/gail-1.6.6/missing --run autoconf
autoconf: not found
WARNING: `autoconf' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
           you modified `configure.in'.  You might want to install the
           `Autoconf' and `GNU m4' packages.  Grab them from any GNU
           archive site.
/bin/sh ./config.status --recheck
---8<-----------snip-------------------------------------------------

(some won't output this, but just go within a loop around forever)

If I press ctrl-C, change to the offending directory/port - in this
case /usr/ports/accessibility/gail and do a make port there, it
just plain succeeds (even though I only have autoconf14 and autoconf18
installed).

Any ideas? Or am I just plain stupid, not seeing the obvious?

Regards,
Holger Kipp