autoreconf failure xorg-libXp

[lyonsdw@…]

Numerous ports that built successfully for me a year ago (7/2009) fail with various errors 7/2010. I wish to build texlive and xfig. Here is the specific failure for xfig, encountered when attempting to build xorg-libXp.

I'm running mac os 10.5.8 on a macbook pro, hardware version 5,5, using macports installed fresh 7/4/2010.

$ sudo port install xorg-libXp
--->  Computing dependencies for xorg-libXp
--->  Configuring xorg-libXp
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: autoreconf failure: shell command failed
Log for xorg-libXp is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_x11_xorg-libXp/main.log
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Please remember to use WikiFormatting.

autoconf 2.66 had several problems. We downgraded autoconf to 2.65. Have you used "sudo port sync" and "sudo port upgrade autoconf" to get this change?

[lyonsdw@…]

That worked. xorg-libXp built fine, then xfig also. I'll try some others that were giving me problems. Thanks so much!