autoconf problem

[Nicki de Wet]

Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> Nicki de Wet wrote:
>> There appears to be a problem with the autoconf port.
>>
>> After doing portsnap fetch update, portversion says the following:
>> bsd00# portversion -vl "<"
>> [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 19039 
>> port entries found 
>> .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000.........12000.........13000.........14000.........15000.........16000.........17000.........18000.........19000 
>> ..... done]
>> autoconf                    <  needs updating (port has 2.62) (=> 
>> 'devel/autoconf262')
>>
>> Trying to upgrade autoconf, I get the following:
>> bsd00# portupgrade -bvpp autoconf
>> --->  Session started at: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:36:38 +0000
>> ** Port directory not found: devel/autoconf261
>> --->  Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
>>         - devel/autoconf261 (port directory error)
>> --->  Packages processed: 0 done, 1 ignored, 0 skipped and 0 failed
>> --->  Session ended at: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:36:38 +0000 (consumed 
>> 00:00:00)
>>
>>
>> There is no mention in /usr/ports/UPDATING of the change in directory 
>> apparent from the above output, and it seems there is a discrepency 
>> in the INDEX downloaded by portsnap and the output of make search 
>> name=autoconf
>>
>> INDEX:
>> autoconf-2.61|/usr/ports/devel/autoconf261|/usr/local|Automatically 
>> configure source code on many Un*x platforms 
>> (2.61)|/usr/ports/devel/autoconf261/pkg-descr|ade at FreeBSD.org|devel|expat-2.0.0_1 
>> gettext-0.14.5_2 gmake-3.81_1 help2man-1.36.4_1 ldconfig_compat-1.0_8 
>> libiconv-1.9.2_2 m4-1.4.8_1 p5-gettext-1.05_1 
>> rc_subr-1.31_1|m4-1.4.8_1|http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/|||
>> b
>>
>
> Show grep ^devel/autoconf261 /usr/ports/MOVED output.
>
> If your MOVED file is OK, I'll take a look on it (if it's a regression).
>
> Anyway you can just remove autoconf port. It'll be installed when 
> required.

Thanks Sergey, I upgraded automake first, then autoconf, and it worked 
ok, thanks.

Nicki