thttpd-2.25b-r8 define WANT_AUTOCONF=2.1 which is fine, but when building thttpd without sys-devel/autoconf:2.1 installed we get a m4 error : >>> Preparing source in /usr/i586-geode-linux-gnu/tmp/portage/www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r8/work/thttpd-2.25b ... * Applying additional-input-validation-httpd.c.diff ... [ ok ] * Applying fix-buffer-overflow.diff ... [ ok ] * Applying fix-insecure-tmp-creation-CVE-2005-3124.diff ... [ ok ] * Applying thttpd-2.25b-glibc-2.10.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying thttpd-2.25b-fix-illegal-path-info.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying thttpd-2.25b-monolithic-timer.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying thttpd-2.25b-use-Status-header.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying thttpd-2.25b-use-X-Forwarded-For-header.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying thttpd-2.25b-respect-CFLAGS--dont-link-static.patch ... [ ok ] * Running eautoreconf in '/usr/i586-geode-linux-gnu/tmp/portage/www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r8/work/thttpd-2.25b' ... * Running autoconf ... [ !! ] * Failed Running autoconf ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /usr/i586-geode-linux-gnu/tmp/portage/www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r8/temp/autoconf.out * ERROR: www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r8 failed (prepare phase): * Failed Running autoconf ! # cat /usr/i586-geode-linux-gnu/tmp/portage/www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r8/temp/autoconf.out ***** autoconf ***** ***** PWD: /usr/i586-geode-linux-gnu/tmp/portage/www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r8/work/thttpd-2.25b ***** autoconf ac-wrapper: warning: invalid WANT_AUTOCONF '2.1'; ignoring. configure.in:95: error: AC_LANG: unknown language: ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:82: _AC_LANG_SET is expanded from... ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:89: AC_LANG is expanded from... ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:606: AS_IF is expanded from... ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2032: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from... configure.in:95: the top level autom4te-2.68: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. i586-geode-linux-gnu-emerge -vat thttpd 2. 3.
(In reply to comment #0) > thttpd-2.25b-r8 define WANT_AUTOCONF=2.1 which is fine, but when building > thttpd without sys-devel/autoconf:2.1 installed we get a m4 error : > DEPEND="sys-devel/autoconf:2.1" has been added to thttpd-2.25b-r9. This should fix the issue. Reopen if its still a problem.