Re: audio/pulseaudio: configure: error: Autoconf 2.65 or better is required.

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

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:13:47PM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> On 28 October 2015 at 20:07, Ottavio Caruso
> <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > $ uname -a:
> > NetBSD X61 7.0_RC3 NetBSD 7.0_RC3 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Sep 22 23:24:13
> > JST 2015  nonaka%koharu.myhome.nonakap.org@localhost:/home/snapshot/NetBSD/NB7.20150922/obj.NetBSD-amd64/amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
> > amd64
> >
> >
> > $ cat CVS/Tag
> > Tpkgsrc-2015Q3
> >
> > $ cd pkgsrc/audio/pulseaudio/
> >
> > $ bmake update
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > checking whether autoconf is installed... no
> > configure: error: Autoconf 2.65 or better is required.
> >     Please make sure it is installed and in your PATH.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop.
> > bmake[5]: stopped in /home/oc/pkgsrc/devel/automake
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > $ which autoconf
> > /usr/pkg/bin/autoconf
> >
> > $ pkg_info|grep autoconf
> > bmake-20150505      Portable (autoconf) version of NetBSD 'make' utility
> > autoconf-2.69nb6    Generates automatic source code configuration scripts
> 
> 
> $ cd pkgsrc/devel/automake
> $ cd work/automake-1.15/
> $ sh configure
> 
> [...]
> 
> checking whether autoconf is installed... yes
> checking whether autoconf works... yes
> checking whether autoconf is recent enough... yes
> 
> It seems to me the problem is not with the original configure script
> as it comes from upstream. The problem is somewhere either in the
> Makefile or in the mk scripts.

I haven't seen this problem before. Please do:

$ cd pkgsrc/devel/automake
$ make clean
$ make

and if it persists, look in work/*/config.log for details.
 Thomas