Trying to emerge lighttpd when pkgconfig is not installed results in the error message: "configure.ac:67: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE". emerge --info output: Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30.5-linode20 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30.5-linode20-i686-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_L5420_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r3 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages nodoc noinfo parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/portage/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="bash-completion cracklib crypt minimal nptl pam python readline sse sse2 ssl tcpd threads threadsafe unicode x86 xml 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 mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" 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="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --unmerge pkgconfig 2. emerge -1 lighttpd Actual Results: emerge failure on the 'Running autoconf ...' step. Possible references: #204663 #238661
Please attach the complete build.log.
Created attachment 202599 [details] build.log for the case when pkgconfig is not installed
Created attachment 202600 [details] Autoconf output
%% grep pkg-config work/lighttpd-1.4.23/config.log configure:17159: checking for pkg-config configure:17177: found /usr/bin/pkg-config configure:17190: result: /usr/bin/pkg-config ac_cv_path_PKG_CONFIG=/usr/bin/pkg-config PKG_CONFIG='/usr/bin/pkg-config' + 23 Sep 2009; Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org> lighttpd-1.4.23.ebuild: + add pkgconfig build dep, bug 282666
