Bugzilla Bug 76473

The wrapper for autoconf selects the wrong version of autoconf to run.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge games-board/ace
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
cd . && autoconf
FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script
make: *** [configure] Error 2



Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Nov  9 2004, 00:39:32)]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.8.5-r2, 1.9.3, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -fprefetch-loop-arrays
-ffast-math -frename-registers -mtune=athlon64 -march=athlon64"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -fprefetch-loop-arrays
-ffast-math -frename-registers -mtune=athlon64 -march=athlon64"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo
http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo
http://mirror.uni-c.dk/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/
http://gentoo.math.bme.hu http://mirror.uni-c.dk/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS=""
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X acpi alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups esd f77
fam flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick
imlib ipv6 java jp2 jpeg junit kde libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod motif mozilla
mysql nas ncurses nls nptl odbc offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl
png python qt readline ruby samba sdl slang sqlite ssl tcltk tcpd tetex threads
tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales xml xml2 xmms
xpm xrandr xv zlib"

Created an attachment (id=47423) [details]
Ebuild fixing the reported problem

Suggested fix: 
Adding "export WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5" and "libtoolize --copy --force" to the
ebuild.

punted all the autotool code in the ebuild and fixed the timestamp of
configure.in