Bugzilla Bug 109832

emerging libherdstat-0.1.0_p1 (as part of updating herdstat) fails with the
following error:
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Doxyfile
config.status: creating herdstat/Makefile
config.status: creating herdstat/util/Makefile
config.status: creating herdstat/fetcher/Makefile
config.status: creating herdstat/xml/Makefile
config.status: creating herdstat/portage/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
config.status: error: cannot find input file: tests/Makefile.in

emerge --info
Portage 2.0.53_rc6 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.13-ck8 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.13-ck8 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.13
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env
/usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/"
LC_ALL="en_US"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/bmg-main /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X aac aalib alsa avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt
cups curl dbus eds emboss encode esd flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg kde ldap
libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir mikmod mono motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls
nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl pic png python qt quicktime readline
ruby samba sdl speex spell sqlite ssl tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff
truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib
userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS

I am attaching config.log.

Created an attachment (id=71027) [edit]
config.log from failed libherdstat emerge

/var/tmp/portage/libherdstat-0.1.0_p1/work/libherdstat-0.1.0_p1/config.log

hmm not sure how that happened.  It's as if automake wasn't run.  Anyways, I've
just thrown in an automake call for now just so I don't have to repackage the
release just for that.