#16009: arts-1.1.2: patch failure: KDE requires autoconf 2.52, 2.53 or 2.54 --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: zweistein12@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Keywords: | Port: arts --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Comment(by dr2chase@…): And if I may add, ditto! I've tried to work around this the hard way, and found the following obstacles: - use of /usr/bin/autoconf is preferred to all others (in particular, it will ignore whichever one MacPorts installed, and it will not allow me to perform the sleazy expedient of wrapping autoconf in a shell script that lies about the version number). - asking macports to install "autoconf@2.54" installs autoconf@2.63, without any complaints. This seems wrong. - performing first "port extract arts", then editing the offending script, and then performing "port -v install arts" or "port -d install arts" does not work, because there's a secret step (not listed in the verbose/debug output) in which the changes made to the buggy script (admin/cvs.sh) are silently discarded. I've tried every sleazy trick I know to work around this. This bug has been sitting here for 6 months. The "fix" is relatively easy, if I knew how to substitute a corrected admin/cvs.sh, without it being substituted back behind my back. Can we get a little help here? -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16009#comment:5> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS