build failure of ganglia-monitor-core-3.1.7

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:33:10PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 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.

Great, I'll add the dependancy to the port.

> > 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?

Nope, I'll see if I can spot anything obvious in the autoconf code and
pester the devs about it.

-- Brooks
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