#36010: ghostscript upgrade failing ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- Reporter: bpabbott@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.1.2 Keywords: | Port: ghostscript ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- After a selfupdate upgrading ghostscript fails with automake 1.12, but succeeds after automake @1.11.5_0 is activated. $ port installed automake The following ports are currently installed: automake @1.11.1_0 automake @1.11.2_0 automake @1.11.3_0 automake @1.11.5_0 automake @1.12_0 automake @1.12.1_0 automake @1.12.2_0 automake @1.12.3_0 (active) $ sudo port upgrade pstoedit ---> Computing dependencies for ghostscript ---> Fetching archive for ghostscript ---> Attempting to fetch ghostscript-9.06_1.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/ghostscript ---> Attempting to fetch ghostscript-9.06_1.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/ghostscript ---> Fetching distfiles for ghostscript ---> Verifying checksum(s) for ghostscript ---> Extracting ghostscript ---> Applying patches to ghostscript ---> Configuring ghostscript Error: org.macports.configure for port ghostscript returned: autoreconf failure: command execution failed Please see the log file for port ghostscript for details: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_print_ghostscript/ghostscript/main.log Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1 To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide: http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets Activating automake @1.11.5_0 fixes the problem. $ sudo port activate automake @1.11.5_0 ---> Computing dependencies for automake ---> Deactivating automake @1.12.3_0 ---> Cleaning automake ---> Activating automake @1.11.5_0 ---> Cleaning automake Bens-MacBook-Pro:Development bpabbott$ sudo port upgrade ghostscript---> Computing dependencies for ghostscript ---> Configuring ghostscript ---> Building ghostscript ---> Staging ghostscript into destroot ---> Installing ghostscript @9.06_1 ---> Cleaning ghostscript ---> Computing dependencies for ghostscript ---> Deactivating ghostscript @9.05_2 ---> Cleaning ghostscript ---> Activating ghostscript @9.06_1 ---> Cleaning ghostscript ... <snip> ... Ben -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36010> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS