Trying to emerge mjpegtools-1.6.2-r3 when libsdl has NOT been installed (and when NOT having USE=sdl) fails: --- 8< ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ emerge mjpegtools Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/mjpegtools-1.6.2-r3 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) mjpegtools-1.6.2.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking mjpegtools-1.6.2.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/mjpegtools-1.6.2-r3/work * Applying mjpegtools-1.6.2-fPIC.patch... [ ok ] * Applying mjpegtools-1.6.2-gcc34.patch... [ ok ] * Applying mjpegtools-1.6.2-gcc34-altivec.patch... [ ok ] gtk * Applying altivec-fix-1.6.2.patch... [ ok ] aclocal: configure.in: 380: macro `AM_PATH_SDL' not found in library autoreconf-2.59: aclocal failed with exit status: 1 !!! ERROR: media-video/mjpegtools-1.6.2-r3 failed. !!! Function src_unpack, Line 47, Exitcode 1 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. --- 8< ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge unmerge libsdl 2. USE=-sdl emerge mjpegtools Expected Results: mjpegtools should be able to be installed without sdl. Portage 2.0.51_rc7 (default-amd64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.9-rc1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-rc1 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244 Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j 3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib amd64 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt dvd dvdr encode f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nogcj oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline slang spell ssl tcpd truetype xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
I can confirm this one, also on amd64
i too can confrim this on amd 64
Michael, I think your change (14 Jun 04) introduced this problem.
I'll take a look at this.
Commited a small temporary bugfix. Now only ppc is broken. But since there is also a problem with the Altivec-code and gcc 3.4, we've to investigate further.
Looks like Diego fixed that one too