Re: Strange errors

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 02:15:26PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> 
> > > It would appear that something in the pkgsrc infrastructure now needs to use
> > > m4 and/or perl, yet these packages have not been built.  Shouldn't there be
> > > some sort of "bootstrap" process that installs packages that are needed by
> > > pkgsrc itself?
> > > 
> > > Or am I misunderstanding the error messages?
> > 
> > Yes. automake itself wants autoconf (and thus m4) and perl.
> > 
> > I guess you have leftover work directories?
> 
> Ah, yes!  I had explicitly done a 'make cleandir' in libuv directory, but
> not in the other directories (for the dependencies).

'make clean-depends' is your friend :)
 Thomas