For archives: samba-libsmbclient - "/usr/local/bin/autom4te259: not found" issue

[Eliot Earle]

Adi Pircalabu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> During a serious upgrade of several ports (4.11-STABLE) the build failed
> in net/samba-libsmbclient with a line like this:
> /usr/local/bin/autom4te259: not found
> My Google quests did not drive me anywhere, so I began to dig into it.
> The above file IS in the correct place, autoconf259 is properly
> installed, BUT: lang/perl5 was also upgraded from 5.8.5 to 5.8.6_2.
> After perl5 upgrade completed there was no more /usr/bin/perl file
> because post-install does not run "use.perl whatever" automatically. So,
> after running "use.perl port" the problem dissapeared and
> samba-libsmbclient built succesfully.
> I have to admit that: I do not read UPDATING as often as I should, I
> did not search enough after a "-DUSE_PERL" environment variable to
> automate rebuilding of /usr/bin/perl, therefore I do not know right now
> if this issue is documented, there are/where/should be any PRs.
> Hope these help
> Cheers
> 
> 
I think a few of us have put forward ideas on how to fix the perl 
5.8.6_2 thing, with the lack of use.perl support after update, etc.

Here's mine: http://wiki.cat5.org/index.php/perlfix

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