gimp2 no longer installs

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 4, 2013, at 23:01, Piet van Oostrum <piet at vanoostrum.org> wrote:

> Yesterday I did a sudo port selfupdate, which indicated that a.o. gimp2 was outdated. However, it fails to upgrade or install. Even when I do a sudo port clean gimp2 first. I have the variants +help_browser+python27+quartz.
> 
> This is the part of the log file that contains the error message:
> 
> :info:configure autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
> :info:configure configure.ac:453: warning: AM_NLS is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> :info:configure m4macros/intltool.m4:185: IT_PROG_INTLTOOL is expanded from...
> :info:configure configure.ac:453: the top level
> :info:configure configure.ac:1938: warning: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> :info:configure m4macros/gtk-doc.m4:67: GTK_DOC_CHECK is expanded from...
> :info:configure configure.ac:1938: the top level
> :info:configure configure.ac:454: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
> :info:configure       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> :info:configure       See the Autoconf documentation.
> :info:configure configure.ac:484: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0
> :info:configure configure.ac:485: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
> :info:configure configure.ac:513: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_GTK_2_0
> :info:configure configure:15311: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_NLS
> :info:configure autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
> 
> One thing that surprises me is that autoreconf calls /usr/bin/autoconf and not /opt/local/bin/autoconf. Is this normal?

Sounds abnormal to me. /usr/bin/autoconf does not exist in current versions of Xcode anymore. What version of OSX and Xcode do you have? Have you filed a bug report in the issue tracker for this problem?