Re: automake config failure for autoconf test failure (poudriere based build activity)

On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 17:57:23 -0800 Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> poudriere output:
> 
> [00:24:23] [09] [00:01:20] Saved devel/automake | automake-1.16.4 wrkdir to: /usr/local/poudriere/data/wrkdirs/13_0R-CA72-default/default/automake-1.16.4.tbz
> [00:24:23] [09] [00:01:20] Finished devel/automake | automake-1.16.4: Failed: configure
> . . .
> 
> logs/errors/automake-1.16.4.log :
> 
> . . .
> checking whether autoconf is installed... yes
> checking whether autoconf works... no
> configure: error: The installed version of autoconf does not work.
>     Please check config.log for error messages before this one.
> ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.  
> Please report the problem to tijl@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
> "/wrkdirs/usr/ports/devel/automake/work/automake-1.16.4/config.log" including
> the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea
> to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. a
> /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static info -g -Ea).
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> make: stopped in /usr/ports/devel/automake
> =>> Cleaning up wrkdir  
> ===>  Cleaning for automake-1.16.4  
> build of devel/automake | automake-1.16.4 ended at Sun Nov 14 17:01:21 PST 2021
> build time: 00:01:09
> !!! build failure encountered !!!
> 
> 
> work/automake-1.16.4/config.log :
> 
> . . .
> configure:3650: checking whether autoconf is installed
> configure:3656: autoconf --version
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
> Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> 
> Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
> configure:3659: $? = 0
> configure:3667: result: yes
> configure:3674: checking whether autoconf works
> configure:3684: cd conftest && autoconf -o /dev/null conftest.ac
> gm4:/usr/local/share/autoconf-2.69/autoconf/autoconf.m4f:1: expecting character `V' in frozen file
> autom4te-2.69: /usr/local/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1
> configure:3687: $? = 1
> configure:3696: result: no
> configure:3700: error: The installed version of autoconf does not work.
>     Please check config.log for error messages before this one.
> . . .
> 
> 
> For reference:
> 
> # uname -apKU
> FreeBSD CA72_16Gp_ZFS 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #19 main-n250667-20aa359773be-dirty: Sun Nov 14 02:57:32 PST 2021     root@CA72_16Gp_ZFS:/usr/obj/BUILDs/main-CA72-nodbg-clang/usr/main-src/arm64.aarch64/sys/GENERIC-NODBG-CA72  arm64 aarch64 1400042 1400042
> 
> # cd /usr/ports/
> # ~/fbsd-based-on-what-commit.sh 
> branch: main
> merge-base: 057c0c3c0645c0b237bb2a96dda440e0426ca983
> merge-base: CommitDate: 2021-11-14 23:41:22 +0000
> 057c0c3c0645 (HEAD -> main, freebsd/main, freebsd/HEAD) [NEW] security/snowflake-tor: Pluggable Transport using WebRTC inspired by Flashproxy
> n566061 (--first-parent --count for merge-base)
> 
> 
> Note(s):
> 
> My amd64 FreeBSD context using the same sources (by content) did not
> have this problem.

That's a strange error.  Maybe try to rebuild m4 and autoconf packages.
On the FreeBSD package build cluster it builds fine.  Here's the log
from today:
http://ampere2.nyi.freebsd.org/data/main-arm64-default/latest-per-pkg/automake-1.16.4.log