failure of make for Kuickshow

John Hein jhein at symmetricom.com
Tue Apr 20 20:36:32 UTC 2010


Father Gordon Gilbert wrote at 13:24 -0400 on Apr 20, 2010:
 > I'm trying to install Kuickshow on my PC-BSD machine, and it stopped.  The
 > final few lines of the compiling are pasted below:
 > 
 > checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
 > checking dependency style of cc... (cached) gcc3
 > CWARNFLAGS+= -Wold-style-definition -Wdeclaration-after-statement: not found
 > checking for cpp... /usr/bin/cpp
 > checking if /usr/bin/cpp requires -undef... yes
 > checking if /usr/bin/cpp requires -traditional... yes
 > checking whether to use XCB... (cached) yes
 > ./configure: 21141: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
[...]
 > Stop in /usr/ports/x11/libX11.
[...]
 > Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/kuickshow.
 > [root at pcbsd]/usr/ports/graphics/kuickshow(81)#
 > 
 > As requested, attached is  /usr/ports/x11/libX11/work/libX11-1.2/config.log
 > 
 > Can you suggest to a non-geek such as me (I have been able to install from
 > ports for years, but I cannot problem-solve if there are errors) how to
 > carry on from here?


This is likely an issue with libtool (possibly both old and new
versions of libtool), but it's possibly complicated by pc-bsd and how
it has its own ports area in /PCBSD - you could try also asking on
a pc-bsd list.

It has also been discussed previously on this list - see the archives.


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