autoconf problem

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:54:01AM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> While building /ftp/proftpd, pointyhat running 5.5-STABLE reported the 
> following:
> 
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: creating mod_wrap2.h
> /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's:/usr/local/share/examples/proftpd:/usr/local:' /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/config.h
> /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's: -lnsl::' /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/Make.rules
> /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:'  -e 's:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:'  
> /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/src/proftpd.8 
> /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/utils/ftpshut.8  
> /work/a/ports/ftp/proftpd/work/proftpd-1.3.1rc2/utils/ftpcount.1
> ===>  Building for proftpd-1.3.1.r2_1
> cd . && autoconf
> autoconf: not found
> gmake: *** [configure] Error 127
> *** Error code 2
> 
> I'm not quite sure how to deal with this. Should I add it as a BUILD_DEPENDS, 
> or USE_AUTOTOOLS? This problem doesn't show up on any local boxes I've tested 
> on.

USE_AUTOTOOLS sounds like the proper fix, although I don't remember
how that interfaces with configure scripts which want "autoconf"
versus autoconf213/253/259/261...

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