Re: devel/autoconf fails on netbsd-7

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 04:10:50PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Hello,
> devel/autoconf fails to build on netbsd-7:
> ftp://asim.lip6.fr/outgoing/packages/amd64/7.0/2015Q1/20150506.1506/autoconf-2.69nb5/build.log
> 
> Making all in man
> --- ./config.guess.1 ---
> --- ./config.sub.1 ---
> --- ./config.guess.1 ---
> Updating man page ./config.guess.1
> --- ./config.sub.1 ---
> Updating man page ./config.sub.1
> --- ./config.guess.1 ---
> PATH="../tests:../build-aux:$PATH";  export PATH;  /bin/sh /usr/tmp/devel/autoconf/work/autoconf-2.69/build-aux/missing --run help2man  --include=config.guess.x  --include=./common.x  --source='GNU Autoconf 2.69'  --output=./config.guess.1.t `echo 'config.guess' | sed 's,.*/,,'`
> --- ./config.sub.1 ---
> PATH="../tests:../build-aux:$PATH";  export PATH;  /bin/sh /usr/tmp/devel/autoconf/work/autoconf-2.69/build-aux/missing --run help2man  --include=config.sub.x  --include=./common.x  --source='GNU Autoconf 2.69'  --output=./config.sub.1.t `echo 'config.sub' | sed 's,.*/,,'`
> help2man: can't get `--help' info from config.sub
> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> --- ./config.guess.1 ---
> help2man: can't get `--help' info from config.guess
> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> --- ./config.sub.1 ---
> *** [./config.sub.1] Error code 1
> 
> make[2]: stopped in /usr/tmp/devel/autoconf/work/autoconf-2.69/man
> --- ./config.guess.1 ---
> *** [./config.guess.1] Error code 1
> 
> make[2]: stopped in /usr/tmp/devel/autoconf/work/autoconf-2.69/man
> 2 errors
> 
> 
> did anyone else see this ? Any idea how to fix ?

I found the problem; ../../mk/gnu-config/config.* is missing
the x bit in my checkout. a chmod a+x did fix the problem but I'm
not sure if this is the right fix.
Any comment ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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