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Re: To all autobuilders..

From: Joe Halpin <j.p.h_at_comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:36:16 -0600

Joe Halpin wrote:
> Joe Halpin wrote:
>
>> Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think this output is significant, but I'm not sure.
>>>
>>> Your build http://curl.haxx.se/auto/log.cgi?id=20040313234331-4668
>>> shows that "ltconfig" is missing which I think is weird since my
>>> successful linux builds have no ltconfig and I can't find ltconfig
>>> mentioned in the configure or ltmain.sh scripts.
>>>
>>> To me it looks like you have a problem with your libtool
>>> installation. Can you run the configure script as included in a
>>> daily snapshot on this platform?
>>
>> Ok, that works fine, with 100% success from test-full.
>>
>> I've checked the versions of the auto* tools here and they're the same
>> as the ones on my solaris box. I installed some of them from ports and
>> some I downloaded from the FSF web site and built myself. That may be
>> causing some kind of weird problem so I'll reinstall all that stuff
>> from ports and try it again.
>
> Looks like the problem was that I never did install a new version of m4
> because the one that comes with FreeBSD (/usr/bin/m4) is the correct
> version. However, they must have customized it somehow which made it
> incompatible with the curl distribution.
>
> I built and installed a new m4 in /usr/local/bin (which is at the front
> of my PATH, and things look fine now. You should see a build show up
> there pretty soon.

I checked with the freebsd-stable mailing list and found out that
FreeBSD does not use GNU m4, they have their own version. So I guess
anyone wanting to do a daily build on *BSD would probably want to
install GNU m4.

Joe
Received on 2004-03-15