Problems building certain ports

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Some ports build beautifully on a clean system, but on a well populated 
> system break at the configure stage.  My guess is that some port 
> somewhere (perhaps something related to gnome) changes the system. Ports 
> that suffer from this include mutt, libvorbis, and grub.
> 
> Here is the output from building grub, but all the others fail in the 
> same way.
> 
> hub2# cd ../../sysutils/grub/
> hub2# make
> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> ===>  Extracting for grub-0.97_1
> => MD5 Checksum OK for grub-0.97.tar.gz.
> => SHA256 Checksum OK for grub-0.97.tar.gz.
> ===>  Patching for grub-0.97_1
> ===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for grub-0.97_1
> ===>   grub-0.97_1 depends on executable: gmake - found
> ===>   grub-0.97_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/automake-1.9 - found
> ===>   grub-0.97_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.61 - found
> ===>  Configuring for grub-0.97_1
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:202: warning: underquoted 
> definition of AC_PATH_DPS_GUESS_GNUSTEP
>   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
>   or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:239: warning: underquoted 
> definition of AC_PATH_DPS_GUESS
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:333: warning: underquoted 
> definition of AC_PATH_DPS_CHECK_LIB
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:405: warning: underquoted 
> definition of AC_PATH_DPS_CHECK_HEADER
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:440: warning: underquoted 
> definition of AC_PATH_DPS_CHECK
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:450: warning: underquoted 
> definition of AC_PATH_DPS
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:525: warning: underquoted 
> definition of AC_CHECK_DPS_NXAGENT
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:558: warning: underquoted 
> definition of AC_PATH_DPSET
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:579: warning: underquoted 
> definition of AC_PROG_PSWRAP
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:172: file `path_dps.m4' does not exist
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/p2/sysutils/grub.

OK, it seems to be installing the dgs port that creates the problem.  I 
can always make sure I install dgs after these other ports.  But I guess 
it is a problem that ultimately needs fixing.