Problems building expat port [long-ish] [re-send]

[John OShea]

[apologies if you're seeing this twice - have had some
DNS issues preventing the original post, so this was
sent via an (ick) Hotmail account that I suspect has
been filtered out by most of you]

I'm getting configure errors on a variety of 4.8/4.9
boxen while building expat (snipped output follows).
I'm re-supping 'ports-all tag=.', have zapped the
entire /usr/ports tree and tried several cvsup servers
and am now at a loss. Can anyone offer me a hint as to
what I'm missing / doing wrong?

Ta,

John


>===>  Configuring for expat-1.95.6_1
>checking build system type... Invalid configuration
`FreeBSD-portbld-freebsd4.8': machine
`FreeBSD-portbld' not recognized
>configure: error: /bin/sh conftools/config.sub
FreeBSD-portbld-freebsd4.8 failed
>===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
>      Please report the problem to
kuriyama at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and
>      attach the
"/usr/ports/textproc/expat2/work/expat-1.95.6/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. an `ls /var/db/pkg`).


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/usr/ports/textproc/expat2/work/expat-1.95.6/config.log:
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This file contains any messages produced by compilers
while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes
a mistake.

It was created by expat configure 1.95.6, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53.  Invocation command
line was

  $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
--build=FreeBSD-portbld-freebsd4.8

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = www1.wordbank.co.uk
uname -m = i386
uname -r = 4.8-STABLE
uname -s = FreeBSD
uname -v = FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Thu Jul 24 12:57:13
BST 2003     root at www1.wor
dbank.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AGILEXTRA 

/usr/bin/uname -p = i386
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

/bin/arch              = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
hostinfo               = unknown
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown

PATH: /usr/local/libexec/libtool13
PATH: /home/johno/bin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/local/sbin


## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:1655: checking build system type
configure:1668: error: /bin/sh conftools/config.sub
FreeBSD-portbld-freebsd4.8 f
ailed

## ---------------- ##
## Cache variables. ##
## ---------------- ##

ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set=set
ac_cv_env_CPP_value=
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_host_alias_set=
lt_cv_sys_path_separator=:
ac_cv_env_build_alias_set=set
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value='-O -pipe '
ac_cv_env_CC_set=set
ac_cv_build_alias=FreeBSD-portbld-freebsd4.8
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_host_alias_value=
ac_cv_build=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_value=FreeBSD-portbld-freebsd4.8
ac_cv_env_target_alias_value=
ac_cv_env_CC_value=cc
ac_cv_env_CPP_set=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value='-O -pipe '
ac_cv_env_CC_set=set
ac_cv_build_alias=FreeBSD-portbld-freebsd4.8
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_host_alias_value=
ac_cv_build=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_value=FreeBSD-portbld-freebsd4.8
ac_cv_env_target_alias_value=
ac_cv_env_CC_value=cc
ac_cv_env_CPP_set=

## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

#define PACKAGE_NAME "expat"
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "expat"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.95.6"
#define PACKAGE_STRING "expat 1.95.6"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT
"expat-bugs at mail.libexpat.org"

configure: exit 1

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