Bugzilla Bug 192894

I attempted to update the world set of my computer and got an error from emerge
stating that it found a corrupt or invalid dependancy specification:
'>=sys-devel/autoconf-FAIL'

Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4,
2.6.20-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:50:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i486-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[enabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.32
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict
unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ "
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aalib accessibility acl adns afs alsa apache2 arts avahi
bash-completion bcmath berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cairo caps cddp
cdparanoia cdr cjk clamav cli cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups curl
curlwrappers dbase dbm dbus dedicated dga directfb doc dri dtsdvd dvdr dvdread
emacs examples exif expat fastcgi fbcron ffmpeg fftw firefox flac foomaticdb
fortran freetds ftp gcj gd gdbm geoip ggi gif glut gmp gnustep gnutls gphoto2
gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtkhtml guile hal howl icc iconv icq idn imagemagick
imap imlib informix innodb ipod ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java javascript jbig
joystick jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdexdeltas kerberos krb4 ladspa lapack lash lcms
leim lesstif libcaca libg++ libgda libnotify libsamplerate libwww lirc
lm_sensors lua m17n-lib mad maildir matroska matrox mbox mcal midi mime mmx mng
motif mp3 mpeg mpi mplayer mpm-threadpool msn mudflap mule musepack musicbrainz
mysql mysqli nas ncurses nis nls nntp nocd nptl nptlonly ocaml offensive ofx
ogg openexr opengl openmp osc oscar pam pcntl pcre pdf perl php plotutils png
postfix ppds pppd profile python qt3 qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection
ruby samba sdl session sharedext shorten skey slang sndfile snmp soap sockets
socks5 source sox speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svga
symlink sysvipc tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tokenizer truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vhosts videos vorbis win32codecs
x264 x86 xcomposite xface xine xml xorg xosd xpm xprint xscreensaver xsl
xulrunner xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem
bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801
hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem
ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug
file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate
route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"
KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001
mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix
dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 i810 imstt mach64 mga neomagic nsc nv r128 radeon
rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l
vesa vga via vmware voodoo"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Same problem here, with both 22.1 and 22.1-r1 ebuild.

BUT: I have emacs-22.1-r1 installed (on Thu Sep  6 16:10:19 2007), which means
that something has changed outside the emacs ebuild which spoiled it.
Among the things I have updated from then on: libtool, python, portage (which
is my suspected no. 1).

NOTE: my 21.4 ebuilds of emacs still work.

This seems to be dup of bug #192923

It looks like Jakub took a day off; I had never seen 56 bugs assigned to
Wrangler.  It may help if bug creator marked this bug dup himself; would save
Jakub's time when he is back.

Also see bugs #192927 #192951 #192947 #192942 #192903 #192894

Already fixed for app-editors/emacs-22* and app-editors/emacs-cvs.

*** Bug 193109 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***