Re: Trouble building expect

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 04:19:01PM -0700, Scott Sewall wrote:
> 
> I'm having some trouble building the expect port on current.  Any pointers
> would be appreciated.
> 
> I received the following error building the expect port:
> 
> ===>  Configuring for expect-5.38.0_1
> configuring Expect 5.38.0
> checking for autoconf... no
> checking configure up to date... no
> configure: warning: ./configure appears to be old (./configure.in and/or 
> ./Makef
> ile.in are newer) and the autoconf program to fix this situation was not 
> found.
> If you've no idea what this means, enter the command "touch 
> ./configure" and re
> start ./configure.

Most likely your system time is very far in the past (a few months at
least).  If it is so, please set the date to a more reasonable value and
do make clean before trying to build the port again.

> ===>  Building for expect-5.38.0_1
> make: cannot open Makefile.
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/lang/expect.
> ===>  Building for expect-5.38.0_1
> make: cannot open Makefile.
> *** Error code 2
> 
> I touched ./work/expect-5.38/configure, but continue to get the 
> following error:
> ===>  Building for expect-5.38.0_1
> make: cannot open Makefile.
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/lang/expect.
> 
> 
> Some specifics about my system:
> radagast# uname -a
> FreeBSD radagast 5.1-BETA FreeBSD 5.1-BETA #1: Mon May 12 15:37:06 PDT 
> 2003     root_at_radagast:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  sparc64
> 
> Last sup'd src and ports 5/12

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