On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 07:52:12PM +0100, DutchDaemon - FreeBSD Forums Administrator wrote: > On 06/02/2021 18:31, bob prohaska wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 06:03:38PM +0100, DutchDaemon - FreeBSD Forums > > Administrator wrote: > > > On 06/02/2021 17:50, bob prohaska wrote: > > > > Would installing the autoconf port install autoreconf? > > > autoconf-wrapper-20131203 is a requirement of autoconf-2.69_3, so yes. > > > > > Aye, there's the rub: > > > > root@pelorus:/usr/ports/devel/autoconf # make -DBATCH > make.log > > ./configure: /usr/local/bin/perl: not found > > configure: error: Perl 5.006 or better is required > > root@pelorus:/usr/ports/devel/autoconf # > > > > Which closes the circle back the perl problem: > > > > root@pelorus:/usr/ports/devel/autoconf # perl -v > > perl: Command not found. > > root@pelorus:/usr/ports/devel/autoconf # whereis perl > > perl: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.30/perl/man/man1/perl.1.gz > > /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.30.0/perl > > root@pelorus:/usr/ports/devel/autoconf # > > > > It looks like perl isn't installed, but also isn't recognized as a > > dependency that needs to be compiled. The existence of libs and > > man but no bin seems odd. > > > > At this point I'm baffled. Must I install some version of perl > > manually from ports? > > It should be pulled in: > > /usr/ports/devel/autoconf > # make all-depends-list > /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg > /usr/ports/devel/m4 > /usr/ports/print/texinfo > /usr/ports/misc/help2man > /usr/ports/devel/p5-Locale-gettext > /usr/ports/devel/gettext-tools > /usr/ports/devel/libtextstyle > /usr/ports/converters/libiconv > /usr/ports/print/indexinfo > /usr/ports/devel/gettext-runtime > >>> /usr/ports/lang/perl5.32 > /usr/ports/devel/gmake > /usr/ports/devel/p5-Locale-libintl > /usr/ports/converters/p5-Text-Unidecode > /usr/ports/textproc/p5-Unicode-EastAsianWidth > /usr/ports/devel/autoconf-wrapper > > Your system appears to belive it /has/ Perl. What does pkg info -ix perl > yield?
root@pelorus:/usr/ports/lang # pkg info -ix perl perl5-5.32.0_1 perl5.30-5.30.3_1 Are the dots versus dashes significant? Thanks for reading! bob prohaska _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
