On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 12:13:28PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Daniel Bye < > freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:50:22PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > I am trying this out: > > > > > > #portupgrade -f 'autoconf*' 'automake*' > > > > Try upgrading the failing ports by hand. portupgrade tends to suppress full > > error output, making it difficult to ascertain exactly what's gone wrong. > > > > Alternatively, I would be tempted to just uninstall autoconf* and > > automake*, > > since they will get pulled in as dependencies whenever you come to build > > another port that requires them. > > > > > Hi Dan, > > Turns out the culprit was m4. Once I did 'portupgrade m4' successfully, > everything now compiled fine. The box is running FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE which I > was ashamed to mention:-)
Glad you fixed it!
> Will migrate it to 8.x soon, by doing a new installation and migrating.
>
> Or should I wait for FreeBSD-9 ??
I'd go for 8.x as soon as possible. It'll be a while before 9 is ready for
production, and when it is released, it should be pretty straight forward to
upgrade from 8.x using the standard buildworld cycle, provided your setup
isn't too outlandish!
Dan
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