Configure fail with this output. checking for i686-gentoo-freebsd8.2-ranlib... (cached) i686-gentoo-freebsd8.2-ranlib checking for GNU M4 that supports accurate traces... configure: error: no acceptable m4 could be found in $PATH. GNU M4 1.4.6 or later is required; 1.4.16 or newer is recommended. GNU M4 1.4.15 uses a buggy replacement strstr on some systems. Glibc 2.9 - 2.12 and GNU M4 1.4.11 - 1.4.15 have another strstr bug. !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /usr/tmp/portage/sys-devel/bison-2.5/work/bison-2.5/config.log * ERROR: sys-devel/bison-2.5 failed (configure phase): * econf failed * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_configure * environment, line 2203: Called econf '--enable-nls' * ebuild.sh, line 557: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "econf failed" * * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =sys-devel/bison-2.5', * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =sys-devel/bison-2.5'. * The complete build log is located at '/usr/tmp/portage/sys-devel/bison-2.5/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/usr/tmp/portage/sys-devel/bison-2.5/temp/environment'. * S: '/usr/tmp/portage/sys-devel/bison-2.5/work/bison-2.5' Reproducible: Always Portage 2.2.0_alpha43 (default/bsd/fbsd/x86/8.2, gcc-4.4.4, freebsd-lib-8.2-r0, 8.0-RELEASE i386) ================================================================= System uname: FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE-i386-32bit-ELF Timestamp of tree: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:30:01 +0000 ccache version 3.1.5 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p10 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r4, 2.6.6-r1, 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.5 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.3-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.25-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r2, 4.5.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-freebsd/freebsd-lib: 8.2 (virtual/os-headers) Repositories: gentoo sunrise gentoo-haskell quantumsummers-dev naota gentoo-bsd pc_local Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86-fbsd ~x86-fbsd" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA sun-bcla-java-vm skype-eula" CBUILD="i686-gentoo-freebsd8.2" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=prescott --param l1-cache-size=16 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 -mtune=prescott" 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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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="FreeBSD" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" 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Actually this also fail on Linux, so assign this bug to base-system. How to reproduce on Linux. 1. emerge -1 =m4-1.4.15 2. emerge -1 =bison-2.5 Failed with: checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... (cached) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib checking for GNU M4 that supports accurate traces... configure: error: no acceptable m4 could be found in $PATH. GNU M4 1.4.6 or later is required; 1.4.16 or newer is recommended. GNU M4 1.4.15 uses a buggy replacement strstr on some systems. Glibc 2.9 - 2.12 and GNU M4 1.4.11 - 1.4.15 have another strstr bug. !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/bison-2.5/work/bison-2.5/config.log This package should have more strict version dependency for m4.
This was reportedly breaking ARM and MIPS stages (and probably others), so I committed a fix to bison-2.5.ebuild: - m4 dependency was bumped to 1.4.16. - m4 was moved from RDEPEND back to DEPEND (because this is actually correct, and because it was moved from DEPEND to RDEPEND in 2006 as a hack workaround)
