libX11 Configure Script Failing During Build

Chris Maness chris at chrismaness.com
Wed Jul 14 19:50:31 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:45 AM, John Hein <jhein at symmetricom.com> wrote:
> Chris Maness wrote at 09:32 -0700 on Jul 14, 2010:
>  > When rebuilding libX11 with a fresh ports tree, the libX11 configure
>  > script fails out.  See the attached output, and package list.
> ...
>  > ===>  Configuring for libX11-1.3.3,1
> ...
>  > /usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool15.m4:615: AC_LIBTOOL_COMPILER_OPTION is expanded from...
> ...
>  > ./configure: 5478: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
>  > ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> ...
>
> ... but in your package list...
>  > libtool-2.2.6b
>
>
> You have stale libtool15 files.
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2010-May/009754.html
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2010-June/009895.html
>
>
> Not sure why this is happening to people, but it seems like something
> is commonly being done that involves improper port updating.
>
>

Can I just delete it?  (/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool15.m4)

I only use portupgrade with the -r flags to make sure all downstream
deps get updated as well.  However, if it is a common problem, maybe
there is a problem with deinstall removing all of the pertinent files.

Thanks,
Chris Maness


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