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Bug 324425 - net-p2p/transmission-2.00: aclocal fails because of missing m4/ directory
Summary: net-p2p/transmission-2.00: aclocal fails because of missing m4/ directory
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Peter Volkov (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2010-06-17 04:38 UTC by Nikolay S. Rybaloff
Modified: 2010-06-18 10:37 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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2010-06-17 04:40 UTC, Nikolay S. Rybaloff 		Details
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Description Nikolay S. Rybaloff 2010-06-17 04:38:46 UTC 
New transmission-2.00 failed to be built:

>>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/net-p2p/transmission-2.00/work/transmission-2.00 ...
 * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/net-p2p/transmission-2.00/work/transmission-2.00' ...
 * Running aclocal -I m4 ...                                                                                                  [ !! ]

 * Failed Running aclocal !
 * 
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
 * 
 *   /var/tmp/portage/net-p2p/transmission-2.00/temp/aclocal.out



# cat /var/tmp/portage/net-p2p/transmission-2.00/temp/aclocal.out
***** aclocal *****
***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/net-p2p/transmission-2.00/work/transmission-2.00
***** aclocal -I m4

aclocal-1.10: couldn't open directory `m4': No such file or directory


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Nikolay S. Rybaloff 2010-06-17 04:40:33 UTC 
Created attachment 235677 [details]
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Comment 2 Ivan Trombley 2010-06-17 06:54:04 UTC 
Same issue here.
Comment 3 Viksda 2010-06-17 08:47:50 UTC 
Same here.
Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-06-17 08:58:40 UTC 
line:

sed -i -e '/ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS/d' Makefile.am || die

before eautoreconf should fix it.
Comment 5 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-06-17 09:34:07 UTC 
Thank you guys. fixed.
Comment 6 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-06-17 11:24:54 UTC 
*** Bug 324441 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 onip 2010-06-17 14:36:37 UTC 
Errors again

# cat /var/tmp/portage/net-p2p/transmission-2.00/temp/autoconf.out
***** autoconf *****
***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/net-p2p/transmission-2.00/work/transmission-2.00
***** autoconf

configure.ac:121: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PATH_ZLIB
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
Comment 8 onip 2010-06-17 16:05:25 UTC 
upstream is likely to push out updated tarballs with m4 dir included. (lurked on irc channel)
Comment 9 Dmitry 2010-06-17 20:21:59 UTC 
This bug is nof full resolved !

 * Messages for package net-p2p/transmission-2.00:

 * Failed Running autoconf !
 * 
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
 * 
 *   /restore/tempore/portage/net-p2p/transmission-2.00/temp/autoconf.out
 * ERROR: net-p2p/transmission-2.00 failed:
 *   Failed Running autoconf !


star ~ # cat /restore/tempore/portage/net-p2p/transmission-2.00/temp/autoconf.out
***** autoconf *****
***** PWD: /restore/tempore/portage/net-p2p/transmission-2.00/work/transmission-2.00
***** autoconf

configure.ac:121: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PATH_ZLIB
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
Comment 10 Dmitry 2010-06-17 20:23:09 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> Errors again
> 
> # cat /var/tmp/portage/net-p2p/transmission-2.00/temp/autoconf.out
> ***** autoconf *****
> ***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/net-p2p/transmission-2.00/work/transmission-2.00
> ***** autoconf
> 
> configure.ac:121: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PATH_ZLIB
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> 
I have same problem
Comment 11 Nikolaj Šujskij 2010-06-18 07:45:45 UTC 
Guys, bug in question is fixed. See #324441 and #324501.

Especially https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324441#c10
Comment 12 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-06-18 10:37:48 UTC 
(In reply to comment #8)
> upstream is likely to push out updated tarballs with m4 dir included. (lurked
> on irc channel)


Thank you Andrea. This is really helpful.