X11 checks in configure phase for some packages

[Jeremy Huddleston]

That is fixed in autoconf-2.63.  The m4 macro you are referring to is  
AC_X_PATH.

If you see a port failing this, first check if it is REALLY failing.   
Some ports do AC_X_PATH followed by some PKG_CONFIG checks for X11  
(IMO, this itself is a bug since the PKG_CONFIG results are far  
superior to the AC_X_PATH results)... but none the less, make sure the  
port is actually failing to find X.  If it is misbehaving, you  
probably need to:

depends_build port:autoconf # and probably port:automake and  
port:libtool too
use_autoreconf yes

If that fails, you may need to do some autoreconf.env setting like:

autoreconf.env ACLOCAL="aclocal -I <some path the tarball stores m4  
macros>"

See the x11/lesstif port.  That one was particularly annoying.

Setting '--x-include=${x11prefix}/include --x-lib=${x11prefix}/lib' is  
not the best way to address that.

--Jeremy

On Dec 14, 2008, at 16:34, Fred Dushin wrote:

> I've found a few ports that have had issues checking for X11  
> libraries and headers during configuration.  Hacking my way through  
> the configure scripts, I've found lines in the checking of X11 libs  
> like:
>
> for ac_extension in a so sl; do
>
> which of course works fine on Solaris, Linux, BSD, and HP/UX.   
> Changing this to:
>
> for ac_extension in a so sl dylib; do
>
> fixes the configure phase, and the package then installs properly.
>
> I found this lately with the start-notification package, and I'm  
> wonder if I am doing something fundamentally wrong.  There have been  
> others like this in the past, but I didn't take record of them.
>
>  Model Name:	MacBook
>  Model Identifier:	MacBook2,1
>  System Version:	Mac OS X 10.5.5 (9F33)
>
> > port version
> Version: 1.700
>
> XQuartz 2.3.1
>
> I also installed the X11SDK from the Leopard install disk, just to  
> make sure.
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