Nick Templeton wrote: > Sounds like you're trying to mix current ports with a stable base: > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgFAQ
Actually, Nik, I have a 4 day old install of the latest release, 4.5, and I haven't yet rebuilt it. Unless I misunderstand your release setup, this means I'm NOT running stable, right? OK, I looked over that URL. Looks like I was in error anyhow ... I can't look at the ports checkout until I reboot out of this (can't yet send/receive mail on the new system yet, so I don't yet know if ports has a release tag, or if maybe I have to build a current system to get things to work. For the record, I'm NOT actually seeing any "all kinds of crazy errors", just that one port won't build. > > -Nick > > Chuck Robey wrote: >> I have a new OpenBSD-4.5 system. I've got an updated copy of the cvs >> archive, >> so I'm sure I have a *very* recent copy of the ports. I wanted a >> couple of >> ports installed before I began my main work on this new system, and >> that was (1) >> cvsup (this worked fine) and (2) a browser. I picked www/seamonkey. >> >> Among other things, the seamonkey port seems to be *requiring* >> autoconf-2.62. >> Apparently, which all of the other autoconf ports installed just fine, >> autoconf-2.62 won't build, it has problems with a macro on line 1641 of >> lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4. I don't understand those complicated macros >> too well, I >> can't troubleshoot it. >> >> I tried modifying the autoconf port so that it didn't really want the >> 2.62 >> version, but it doesn't matter, www/seamonkey is adamant in needing >> autoconf-2.62. I read into the seamonkey Makefile, it seems to set >> AUTOCONF_VERSION to 2.13, and I set that into my environment, but it >> doesn't >> matter, seamonkey is still requiring version 2.62. I even tried >> cleaning out >> the first build of seamonkey (dind't finish, but I was curious if some >> environment had stayed around somehow) but it made no difference, it >> STILL wants >> autoconf-2.62. >> >> I have very little experience at this point with OpenBSD ports, so I >> don't know >> what else to do. I did check the m4sugar.m4 files from other autoconf >> versions, >> but it seems that the m4sugar.m4 file has been radically changed, I >> can't just >> borrow some lines from (say) autoconf-2.61, it won't work, the file is >> too >> radically modified. >> >> I really need some advice. I sure hope I've guessed correctly on what >> list to >> ask help from. >> >
