makeinfo is stopping portupgrade

Thu Jan 29 21:07:25 PST 2009

Hi,

I'm still running 5.5R on a machine that needs a few ports upgraded.
However, portupgrade now fails consistently when I try to upgrade m4 and
autoconf262 with errors that seem to relate to makeinfo. Is there anything
I can do to make this work, short of upgrading the base system?

Making all in doc
Updating ./version.texi
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 ./m4.info ./m4.info-[0-9] ./m4.info-[0-9][0-9] ./m4.i[0-9] ./m4.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 ./m4.info ./m4.texinfo;  then  rc=0;  cd .;  else  rc=$?;  cd . &&  $restore $backupdir/* `echo "././m4.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`;  fi;  rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
./m4.texinfo:481: Unknown command `'.
./m4.texinfo:2582: Unknown command `'.
./m4.texinfo:2584: Unknown command `'.
./m4.texinfo:2795: Unknown command `'.
makeinfo: Removing output file `./m4.info' due to errors; use --force to preserve.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/m4/work/m4-1.4.11/doc.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/m4/work/m4-1.4.11.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/m4.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade.27118.0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=m4-1.4.11,1 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=1.4.11,1 make DEPENDS_TARGET=package
** Fix the problem and try again.

thanks,
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