[MacPorts] #56599: emacs configure failure

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#56599: emacs configure failure
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  Reporter:  oliverangelil  |      Owner:  drkp
      Type:  defect         |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal         |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports          |    Version:  2.5.0
Resolution:                 |   Keywords:
      Port:  emacs          |
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Changes (by ryandesign):

 * owner:  (none) => drkp
 * cc: dports@… (removed)
 * cc: emcrisostomo (added)
 * status:  new => assigned


Comment:

 emacs patches configure.ac, but does not run autoreconf. This should be
 fixed. Dependencies on autoconf, automake, libtool need to be added as
 well.

 Because this was not done, the configure phase fails when it tries to
 automatically run autoconf which fails because autoconf is not there:

 {{{
 Checking for autoconf (need at least version 2.65) ... missing
 }}}

 This problem was introduced in [46f24f45c2b924893a2a35e0d7ebcaa3a6a2762c
 /macports-ports] when patch-configure.diff was changed from patching
 configure to patching configure.ac.

 The gtk and inline variants and the -devel subports already have autotools
 dependencies; they can be removed there once they are added to the port
 globally.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/56599#comment:1>
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