autoconf problem

[Beech Rintoul]

On Monday 22 January 2007 17:49, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:39:57AM +0200, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:17:18 -0500
> >
> > Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> 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 the makefile noticed the output files were out of date and tried to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.
> >
> > But why does it happen only on pointy ?
> >
> > I tested this on my box plus my i386 and amd64 tindys and I don't see
> > this error.
>
> Dunno, might be a timing issue.  e.g. if the files are created in the
> same second maybe gmake doesn't see they're OOD.  PH builds with more
> I/O latency so they have different timestamps.
>
> Kris

The only build difference that I see is the following line from pointy:

cd . && autoconf

I don't see that on any of the test builds I did. Anyway, I'll add autoconf to 
the makefile to keep everybody happy :-) 

Beech
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