lang/php5 extensions and autoconf - make configure aborts

[Christer Solskogen]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:23 PM, John Marshall
<john.marshall at riverwillow.com.au> wrote:
> I tripped over this when attempting to build 3 different php5 extensions
> on Saturday...
>
>  ----------------
>  # cd /usr/ports/textproc/php5-xsl
>  # make clean configure
>  ===>  Cleaning for php5-xsl-5.3.3_2
>  ...
>  ===>   php5-xsl-5.3.3_2 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.68 - found
>  ...
>  ===>  PHPizing for php5-xsl-5.3.3_2
>  Configuring for:
>  PHP Api Version:         20090626
>  Zend Module Api No:      20090626
>  Zend Extension Api No:   220090626
>  Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the
>  $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable. Then, rerun this script.
>
>  *** Error code 1
>
>  Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/php5-xsl.

Had the same error as you, and I also figured out that reinstalling
lang/php fixed it.

-- 
chs,