autoconf problem

Beech Rintoul freebsd at alaskaparadise.com
Mon Jan 22 21:25:21 UTC 2007


On Monday 22 January 2007 12:17, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:54:01AM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > While building /ftp/proftpd, pointyhat running 5.5-STABLE reported the
> > following:
> >
> > configure: creating ./config.status
> > config.status: creating Makefile
> > config.status: creating mod_wrap2.h
> > /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's:/usr/local/share/examples/proftpd:/usr/local:'
> > /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/config.h /usr/bin/sed
> > -i.bak -e 's: -lnsl::'
> > /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/Make.rules /usr/bin/sed
> > -i.bak -e 's:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:' ?-e 's:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:'
> > ? /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/src/proftpd.8
> > /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/utils/ftpshut.8 ?
> > /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/utils/ftpcount.1
> > ===> ?Building for proftpd-1.3.1.r2_1
> > cd . && autoconf
> > autoconf: not found
> > gmake: *** [configure] Error 127
> > *** Error code 2
> >
> > I'm not quite sure how to deal with this. Should I add it as a
> > BUILD_DEPENDS, or USE_AUTOTOOLS? This problem doesn't show up on any
> > local boxes I've tested on.
>
> Typically means that you touched one of the autoconf input files, and
> the makefile noticed the output files were out of date and tried to
> regenerate them.
>
> Kris

OK, so should I run autoconf before build? and should I list autoconf as a 
build depend?

Beech

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