libSM Configure Script Failure

[Chris Maness]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Greg Larkin <glarkin at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> Chris Maness wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Chris Maness <chris at chrismaness.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Greg Larkin <glarkin at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Chris Maness wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Greg Larkin <glarkin at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>>>>>>> Chris Maness wrote:
>>>>>>>> What would cause a configure script to fail?  See output bellow.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Chris Maness
>>>>>>>> (909) 223-9179
>>>>>>>> http://www.chrismaness.com
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Since we've been conversing privately for a bit, I went back to your
>>>>>>> original message and found something that might benefit you and the list
>>>>>>> as a whole, if someone else runs into this problem.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I see this error message:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> configure.ac:21: warning: AC_CACHE_VAL(lt_prog_compiler_pic_works, ...):
>>>>>>> suspicious cache-id, must contain _cv_ to be cached
>>>>>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:1973: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
>>>>>>> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:1993: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
>>>>>>> /usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool15.m4:615: AC_LIBTOOL_COMPILER_OPTION is
>>>>>>> expanded from...
>>>>>>> /usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool15.m4:4815: AC_LIBTOOL_PROG_COMPILER_PIC
>>>>>>> is expanded from...
>>>>>>> /usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool15.m4:2651: _LT_AC_LANG_C_CONFIG is
>>>>>>> expanded from...
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Notice the pathname "/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool15.m4".  You
>>>>>>> emailed me privately with the list of your installed packages, and you
>>>>>>> have libtool-2.2.6b installed.  This libtool15.m4 file seems to conflict
>>>>>>> with that version of libtool, so please post the output of this command:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> pkg_which /usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool15.m4
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>> Greg
>>>>>> It just returned a ?.  So does that mean that it is not referenced by
>>>>>> any package?  If it is not, can I just delete it?  Also, this seems to
>>>>>> be the issue with libX11.  Someone gave me a similar response for
>>>>>> libX11 on the X11 list.  However, they have not gotten back to me on
>>>>>> what I should do with it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Chris Maness
>> Yes, I believe you can safely delete it.  Just to be 100% sure, rename
>> it temporarily, and then try the build again.  It should also fix the
>> libX11 issue.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Greg
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It made it past the hang up ;o)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris Maness
>>>
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>> It is all working now.  I am forcing a rebuild of all downstream deps
>> for libX11.  Is libSM down stream from libX11 as well?  Hopefully
>> after that is done I can get virtualbox-ose to compile.
>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris Maness
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Good news!  Try pkg_info to find up- and downstream dependencies for libX11:
>
> pkg_info -r libX11-\*  # Upstream
> pkg_info -R libX11-\*  # Downstream
>
> It doesn't look like libX11 and libSM depend on each other on my machine.
>
> Regards,
> Greg
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> Greg Larkin

It looks like they are not directly related to one another.  I guess
my machine will have to huff and puff on those deps too.

Thanks for all the help,
Chris Maness