libdnet @1.12: error: required file 'config/test-driver' not found

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~$ sudo port -vs install libdnet
--->  Computing dependencies for libdnet.
--->  Fetching distfiles for libdnet
--->  Verifying checksums for libdnet
--->  Checksumming libdnet-1.12.tgz
--->  Extracting libdnet
--->  Extracting libdnet-1.12.tgz
--->  Applying patches to libdnet
--->  Applying patch-automake-1.13.diff
patching file configure.in
--->  Configuring libdnet
aclocal: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
config/acinclude.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of AC_DNET_SOCKADDR_SA_LEN
config/acinclude.m4:7:   run info Automake 'Extending aclocal'
config/acinclude.m4:7:   or see http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
autoheader: WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot'
autoheader: WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in'
autoheader: WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.
autoheader: 
autoheader: WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
autoheader: WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows one to define a template without
autoheader: WARNING: `acconfig.h':
autoheader: 
autoheader: WARNING:   AC_DEFINE([NEED_FUNC_MAIN], 1,
autoheader: 		[Define if a function `main' is needed.])
autoheader: 
autoheader: WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
autoheader: WARNING: documentation.
automake: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
configure.in:12: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments forms are deprecated.  For more info, see:
configure.in:12: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Modernize-AM_005fINIT_005fAUTOMAKE-invocation
configure.in:34: error: required file 'config/compile' not found
configure.in:34:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'compile'
automake: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
parallel-tests: error: required file 'config/test-driver' not found
parallel-tests:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'test-driver'
test/check/Makefile.am:5: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
Command failed:  cd "/usr/local/macports/var/macports/build/_usr_local_macports_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_net_libdnet/libdnet/work/libdnet-1.12" && autoreconf -I config 
Exit code: 1
Error: org.macports.configure for port libdnet returned: autoreconf failure: command execution failed
Warning: targets not executed for libdnet: org.macports.activate org.macports.configure org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
Please see the log file for port libdnet for details:
    /usr/local/macports/var/macports/logs/_usr_local_macports_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_net_libdnet/libdnet/main.log
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Error: Processing of port libdnet failed

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

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[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

This only occurs under the not-yet-released version of MacPorts being developed in trunk, and it's because of a change to the default autoconf arguments made in r113062.

Fixed in r117489.