automake19: texinfo error during build

Mahmoud Labadi mlabadi at hadara.ps
Sun Jan 14 12:21:15 UTC 2007


what I can do??

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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2007-01-13 10:31, Mahmoud Labadi <mlabadi at hadara.ps> wrote:
>   
>> thank for your quick response..
>> I did that because I got this error during making install for mutt
>> package so I tried to check automake
>> please advise
>>
>> ===>   mutt-1.4.2.2 depends on executable in : sgmlfmt - found
>> ===>   mutt-1.4.2.2 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/automake19 - not found
>> ===>    Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/automake19 in
>> /usr/ports/devel/automake19
>> ===>  Building for automake-1.9.6
>> Making all in .
>> Making all in doc
>> restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" &&  am__cwd=`pwd` && cd . &&  rm -rf
>> $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir &&  if (makeinfo --no-split --version)
>>     
>>> /dev/null 2>&1; then  for f in ./automake19.info
>>>       
>> ./automake19.info-[0-9] ./automake19.info-[0-9][0-9] ./automake19.i[0-9]
>> ./automake19.i[0-9][0-9]; do  if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir;
>> restore=mv; else :; fi;  done;  else :; fi &&  cd "$am__cwd";  if
>> makeinfo --no-split   -I .  -o ./automake19.info ./automake19.texi;
>> then  rc=0;  cd .;  else  rc=$?;  cd . &&  $restore $backupdir/* `echo
>> "././automake19.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`;  fi;  rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
>> ./automake19.texi:8788: Unknown command `tie'.
>> ./automake19.texi:8788: Misplaced {.
>> ./automake19.texi:8788: Misplaced }.
>> [...]
>>     
>
> That's odd.  I have automake19 installed here, and it doesn't fail with
> this error message, when I rebuild it:
>
>     keramida at kobe:/home/keramida$ pkg_info | grep automake
>     automake-1.9.6      GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.9)
>     keramida at kobe:/home/keramida$
>
> On 2007-01-13 10:43, "Jos? G. Juanino" <jjuanino at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Maybe I am wrong also, but I suspect you are using makeinfo binary
>> from print/texinfo port instead from base system, and you have
>> /usr/local/bin in your PATH before /usr/bin (bad idea in that case).
>>     
>
> That's possible.
>
> Mahmoud, can you show us your PATH and other environment settings?
> This should be easy to do with:
>
>     root# env | sort
>
>
>
>
>   


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