macports Error: Port m4 not found

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 3, 2011, at 15:38, Jacob, Raymond A Jr. CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 58150 wrote:

> Question: I see m4 in the .../devel/m4 directory and I see a PortFile
> too.
> Is there another file that I should check?
> I am using subversion to access macports, in case that makes a
> difference.
> 
> Thank you,
> raymond
> ========================
> OS X 10.5.8
> 
> uname -a Darwin xxxxx 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15
> 16:55:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
> 
> $ sudo port -d install m4
> Password:
> Error: Port m4 not found

selfupdate and try again. The m4 port is definitely there. Perhaps there is something wrong with your portindex (which a selfupdate (or sync)) should rebuild.