"autoconf: required version 2.68 not found" error when trying to make php5 from FreeBSD's ports

Description

When trying to make php5 (or php5-extensions or one of the other php5-* ports), you get the following error:
autoconf: required version 2.68 not found
*** Error code 1

Solution

Use the following commands to resolve the issue:
cd /usr/ports/devel/autoconf-wrapper && make clean && make deinstall && make reinstall

Taken from /usr/ports/UPDATING:
20101204:
AFFECTS: autotools
AUTHOR: autotools@FreeBSD.org

The next stage in the ongoing cleanup of autotools-using ports is
a refactoring of bsd.autotools.mk so that version numbers are no longer
needed within the USE_AUTOTOOLS stanza. There is either
autoconf213/autoconf or automake14/automake (for the legacy versions,
and the currently available versions). This will considerably reduce
the amount of tree-wide patching in future on an update.

IMPORTANT: if you have either devel/autoconf-wrapper or
devel/automake-wrapper installed on your system (and you most likely do)
PLEASE update these ports to their new versions before updating anything
else -- Bad Things[tm] are likely to happen otherwise.

Affected software:

FreeBSD 7.x
FreeBSD 8.x




Comments:

Comment #1 from Marcio Cruz [Username: Guest] at 12/03/2011 08:04
Great !!!
works like a charm

Thanks !!!
Comment #2 from josemi [Username: Guest] at 22/03/2011 14:57
Working!!! Thank you very much!
Comment #3 from JR [Username: Guest] at 31/03/2011 18:06
Thanks for the fix. Worked great.
Comment #4 from Gosho [Username: Guest] at 26/06/2011 19:11
Thank you.
Comment #5 from kyle [Username: Guest] at 11/08/2011 14:59
It's gracefully =)
Thanks
Comment #6 from None [Username: Guest] at 09/10/2012 14:44
Thanks, worked for me too :)
Comment #7 from pete [Username: Guest] at 09/12/2012 13:02
Dude you are the best, 10x a lot!


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