Some ports build beautifully on a clean system, but on a well populated
system break at the configure stage. My guess is that some port
somewhere (perhaps something related to gnome) changes the system. Ports
that suffer from this include mutt, libvorbis, and grub.
Here is the output from building grub, but all the others fail in the
same way.
hub2# cd ../../sysutils/grub/
hub2# make
===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
===> Extracting for grub-0.97_1
=> MD5 Checksum OK for grub-0.97.tar.gz.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for grub-0.97.tar.gz.
===> Patching for grub-0.97_1
===> Applying FreeBSD patches for grub-0.97_1
===> grub-0.97_1 depends on executable: gmake - found
===> grub-0.97_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/automake-1.9 - found
===> grub-0.97_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.61 - found
===> Configuring for grub-0.97_1
/usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:202: warning: underquoted
definition of AC_PATH_DPS_GUESS_GNUSTEP
run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
/usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:239: warning: underquoted
definition of AC_PATH_DPS_GUESS
/usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:333: warning: underquoted
definition of AC_PATH_DPS_CHECK_LIB
/usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:405: warning: underquoted
definition of AC_PATH_DPS_CHECK_HEADER
/usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:440: warning: underquoted
definition of AC_PATH_DPS_CHECK
/usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:450: warning: underquoted
definition of AC_PATH_DPS
/usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:525: warning: underquoted
definition of AC_CHECK_DPS_NXAGENT
/usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:558: warning: underquoted
definition of AC_PATH_DPSET
/usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:579: warning: underquoted
definition of AC_PROG_PSWRAP
/usr/local/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:172: file `path_dps.m4' does not exist
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/p2/sysutils/grub.