Re: libuv i386 build failure

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 01:10:53PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> Working on pkgsrc on someonelse(tm)'s system, which has:
> 
> netbsd# echo $SHELL
> /bin/csh
> 
> Building libuv on this -current/i386 system fails with:
> 
> ===> Configuring for libuv-1.14.1                                               
> Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^ \t=:+{}]+)}/ at /usr/pkgsrc/devel/libuv/work.i386/.tools/bin/au
> tomake line 3936.
> test: : bad number
> test: : bad number
> + libtoolize --copy
> + aclocal -I m4
> + autoconf
> + automake --add-missing --copy
> Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^ \t=:+{}]+)}/ at /usr/pkgsrc/devel/libuv/work.i386/.tools/bin/au
> tomake line 3936.
> *** Error code 255

Turns out "libtoolize" on that box was of length zero. Replacing libtool-base
fixed things. (It was its failure to build libepoxy which made it rather
more obvious)

Cheers,

Patrick