Bug 173928

Summary: devel/autoconf fails to build
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: paulbeard <paulbeard>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: autotools
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description paulbeard 2012-11-26 06:50:00 UTC 
===>  Building for autoconf-2.69
gmake  all-recursive
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/autoconf/work/autoconf-2.69'
Making all in bin
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/autoconf/work/autoconf-2.69/bin'
autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg'         ../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib         --language M4sh --cache '' --melt ./autoconf.as -o autoconf.in
autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /usr/ports/bin/gm4
gmake[2]: *** [autoconf.in] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/autoconf/work/autoconf-2.69/bin'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/autoconf/work/autoconf-2.69'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/autoconf.

How-To-Repeat: make
Comment 1 Tilman Keskinoz freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2012-11-30 16:34:16 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->autotools

over to maintainer
Comment 2 Johan van Selst freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2012-11-30 16:41:07 UTC 
In ports/173928 you wrote:
> autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /usr/ports/bin/gm4

Update the GNU M4 package, devel/gm4 to install the current version.
Then build autoconf again. It should work without further problems.
Comment 3 Ade Lovett freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2013-08-12 21:38:31 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Old PR, no longer relevant -- clean systems build this just fine, 
otherwise there'd be a long line of pitchfork-waving folks outside 
my window.  Well, longer than normal.