Re: Can't build devel/autoconf on NetBSD7/amd64

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 12 October 2015 at 07:53, Ottavio Caruso
<ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
> On 12 October 2015 at 02:03, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
>>
>> Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost> writes:
>>
>>> On 11 October 2015 at 18:16, Ottavio Caruso
>>> <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
>>>>> Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Updating man page ./config.guess.1
>>>>>> PATH="../tests:../build-aux:$PATH";  export PATH;  /bin/sh
>>>>>> /home/oc/pkgsrc/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,.*/,,'`
>>>>>> help2man: can't get `--help' info from config.guess
>>>>>> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
>>>>>> *** Error code 1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Stop.
>>>>>> make[2]: stopped in /home/oc/pkgsrc/devel/autoconf/work/autoconf-2.69/man
>>>>>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> In your logs, it seems that help2man was not found by configure.  So you
>> should make available the entire logs, and/or look in config.log etc. to
>> find out why configure rejected help2man.
>
> I didn't get any errors during "bkmake configure" but:
>
> $ grep help2man work/autoconf-2.69/config.log
> HELP2MAN='${SHELL}
> /home/oc/pkgsrc/devel/autoconf/work/autoconf-2.69/build-aux/missing
> --run help2man'
>
> Full build log is here:
> http://pastebin.ca/raw/3193134
>
> Does it make any difference that I'm using a release candidate and a
> customer kernel?
>

Update:
as per:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2015/05/19/msg014842.html

I've:
$ chmod a+x pkgsrc/mk/gnu-config/config.*

and I could build and install autoconf.

Is/was this the correct solution? And was it fixed back in May?


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Ottavio