portfile:alpine, configure

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Jan 5 03:35:36 UTC 2021


On 2021-1-5 13:57 , Jerry wrote:
> Hello.  I am trying to update the alpine portfile.  The standalone 
> source compiles fine, as it usually has.  While testing the portfile on 
> my local repo, there is a build error[1], meaning that the SSL header 
> file is not found.  Checking the config log, it shows that the configure 
> command has only one argument for the prefix[2], but from the portfile, 
> it should have several arguments, including the relevant 
> "--with-ssl-dir=/opt/local".
> 
> I don't follow MacPorts closely enough to know all the ins and outs, but 
> any ideas why the configure args are missing?  Thanks for any tips.
> 
> [1]:
> :info:build osdep.c:168:10: fatal error: 'x509v3.h' file not found
> :info:build #include <x509v3.h>
> :info:build          ^
> :info:build 5 warnings and 1 error generated.
> 
> [2]:
> It was created by alpine configure 2.24, which was
> generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was
> 
>    $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/local

Impossible to know for sure what the problem is without seeing the 
Portfile, but it looks like you may have accidentally cleared 
configure.args.

- Josh


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