Compilation libX11-1.3.3 error

John Hein jhein at symmetricom.com
Sun Oct 3 02:13:26 UTC 2010


Pierre, Philippe wrote at 14:16 +0100 on Sep 29, 2010:
 > I tried to compile the package libX11-1.3.3 on a freebsd v 6.0 and got
 > an error.
 > 
 > Are you able to help me with this issue ?
 > 
 > Here is attached the config.log and the packages list
 > 
 > The error messages is :
 > 
 > ./configure.lineno : 5470 : Syntax error : word unexpected (expecting
 > ")")
 > Script "configure" failed  unexpectedly
...
 > libtool-1.5.18
 > libtool-2.2.10
...

It's because you have conflicting libtools and did not (at least)
follow ports/UPDATING when trying to update libtool.

Various flavors of this problem have been mentioned in
this list numerous times before.


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