Created attachment 151700 [details] patch to unbreak graphics/libspiro build on FreeBSD 8 Building graphics/libspiro on FreeBSD 8 fails with the following error: [snip] gmake[2]: Entering directory '/wrkdirs/usr/ports/graphics/libspiro/work/fontforge-libspiro-15fdb23' CC spiro.lo CC spiroentrypoints.lo CC bezctx.lo CCLD libspiro.la libtool: error: CURRENT '' must be a nonnegative integer libtool: error: ':2:0' is not valid version information Makefile:495: recipe for target 'libspiro.la' failed gmake[2]: *** [libspiro.la] Error 1 Looking around for 2:0 ... # grep '2:0' * Makefile:LIBSPIRO_VERSION = $0:2:0 config.log:LIBSPIRO_VERSION='$0:2:0' config.status:S["LIBSPIRO_VERSION"]="$0:2:0" which is obviously bogus. The origin is a typo in configure.ac: #------------------------------------------- # Pass variables to MAKEFILE.AM AC_SUBST(HOST,$host) AC_SUBST(LIBSPIRO_VERSION,$spiro_info) This is incorrect because spiro_info is an m4 variable, so the $ gets prepended to its value when generating Makefile. The Makefile than uses LIBSPIRO_VERSION here: libspiro_la_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) -version-info $(LIBSPIRO_VERSION). The shell then sees $0:2:0 and chokes. FreeBSD 9 and newer are able to build the port because their version of /bin/sh has been patched in a way that allows them to accept this as input.
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libspiro's developer has fixed this on their GitHub in the time since the release being used for the port. In the meantime, this patch is acceptable until there is a new release made.
A commit references this bug: Author: truckman Date: Sun Jan 18 17:36:13 UTC 2015 New revision: 377338 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/377338 Log: Add a patch to nuke an extraneous $ in configure.ac that gives the FreeBSD 8 version of /bin/sh heartburn. PR: 196780 Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1546 Approved by: mat (mentor) Approved by: cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com (maintainer) Changes: head/graphics/libspiro/files/ head/graphics/libspiro/files/patch-configure.ac