build failure of ganglia-monitor-core-3.1.7

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 08:46:42AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 09:14:54PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 02:37:42AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:19:40AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > > On ia64 and sparc64, both current, I get
> > > > a build failure of ganglia-monitor-core-3.1.7
> > > > when updating from 3.1.1_6:
> > > > 
> > > > ===>  Building for ganglia-monitor-core-3.1.7
> > > > make: cannot open Makefile.
> > > > *** Error code 1
> > > > 
> > > > Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/ganglia-monitor-core.
> > > 
> > > Does it work for you on any other platforms?
> > 
> > yes, builds on amd64. I should've checked, just
> > I don't need ganglia on amd64.
> 
> Good, my testing was amd64.
> 
> > > If so, there is probably a
> > > configure failure above that needs to be analyzed.
> > 
> > http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/sparc64-ganglia-3.1.7-config.log
> > http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/ia64-ganglia-3.1.7-config.log
> 
> Looking at the log I think I'm missing a dependency on pcre.  Could you
> try installing devel/pcre and seeing if that fixes it?

yes, this fixed it, thanks.

> 
> It's rather bizarre that configure exits with 0 when this happens, it
> should report an error.  That's certainly a bug upstream?

Do you want me to do anything about it?

I'm not familiar with ganglia at all,
only install it because these boxes are
in portscluster.

Many thanks
Anton

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