Unable to find 'automake'

[Gerard Seibert]

Using FreeBSD 5.4

While building 'portmanager', I noticed this error message:

Making all in libMG
Making all in src
cd ../.. &&  /bin/sh 
/usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager/work/portmanager-0.4.1/missing --run 
automake --gnu  libMG/src/Makefile
automake: not found
WARNING: `automake' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
          you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'.
          You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.
          Grab them from any GNU archive site.

I checked the /var/db/pkg directory and found this listing:

drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel  -      512 Feb 22 21:26 automake-1.4.6_2/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel  -      512 Feb 22 21:26 automake-1.5_2,1/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel  -      512 Feb 22 21:26 automake-1.9.6/

Since the build finished without and problems, I assume that it is a 
harmless error message. I was wondering though why it was displayed 
however? Am I looking in the wrong place for the 'automake' program? I 
have Perl 5.8.8 installed if that means anything.

Thanks!

-- 
Gerard Seibert
gerard at seibercom.net