autoconf problems on 5.3-BETA4

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Friday 24 September 2004 11:07 am, you wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 September 2004 02:07 am, Holger Kipp wrote:
> > > while trying to build
> > > print/apsfilter, textproc/intltool is also build (at least it is
> > > trying to do so) with the following neverending loop:
> > > ---8<---snip----------------------------------------------
> > > /usr/local/bin/bash ./config.status --recheck
> >
> > If textproc/intltool were packaged correctly this wouldn't happen.
>
> I first thought this was intltool-related, but afterwards I had lots
> of other ports that ended in a loop during build of apsfilter.
> Note: apsfilter with default options requires many other ports, of which
> quite a lot also had this 'autoconf'-problem.
> All these ports (see my original mail) did build correctly if they
> were created directly (ie not as dependency) with
> # cd /usr/ports/<category>/<port>
> # make package
> This was on 5.3-BETA4 (or 1-3 days later) with default install from
> CD (BETA3) with only a few other ports and updated to BETA4.
>
> > I see the maintainer is gnome at FreeBSD.org.  Send a note to that email,
> > if no one there wants to fix it, then I'll submit a pr if you remind me.
>
> Not necessary - even though the maintainer of intltool might have an idea
> what is going on (I haven't).
>
> Regards,
> Holger

I checked  textproc/intltool and it works correctly..

-Mike