Bugzilla Bug 90982

pam_ldap will fail during compile with an error that it needs autoconf 2.50.
2.59 is installed. The package will build if export WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5 is added
to the src_compile() function of the ebuild. Sorry I don't have a detailed
error report; I'm at work and am unable to repeat the error at the current
time.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Confirmed. pam_ldap, on emerge, fails during the config step and complains that
autoconf 2.5 or greater is required, even though autoconf-2.9 is installed on
my machine.

Jon's fix also worked for me.

er, I meant autoconf-2.59. My bad.

emerge -va pam_ldap fails with

creating Makefile
creating config.h
cd . && autoconf
FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script
make: *** [configure] Fehler 2

!!! ERROR: net-libs/pam_ldap-176 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 23, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

emerge reports, that sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r6 ist installed

The same on ~amd64

we have a fix since 6 week, but nobody includes it - plz fix it - we cant login
overhere :) ...

I still can't reproduce the error.
I have NO idea why autoconf-2.13 is running on your machines.

- i have autoconf 2.13 (why dont know) + 2.59 installed
- pam_ldap-176 does not compile w/ 2.13
- WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5 emerge =pam_ldap-176 -> works
- WANT_AUTOCONF=2.1 emerge =pam_ldap-176 -> does not work
- emerge =pam_ldap-176 -> does not work

btw. the pam_ldap-178 has a 'export WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5' in the ebuild - so made a
stable request in bug 96200

I have five up to date machines on which this is installed. Only one of them
exhibits this behaviour :/ I cannot fathom why/how.

tigger: could you please attach the output from 
find /var/db/pkg/ -type d | xargs ls -ld

for each of the machines?

probably best to send each output to a file and attach the 5 files.

(In reply to comment #6)
> I have NO idea why autoconf-2.13 is running on your machines.

autoconf-wrapper seems to depend on it:

[ebuild  N    ]    sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r6  -emacs 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ]     sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-2-r1  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ]      sys-devel/autoconf-2.13  0 kB

I was able to reproduce the bug, setting WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5 fixed it. So I fixed
the ebuild in CVS too, as it was annoying.

This should be fixed by sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-3-r1 - it invoked
autoconf-2.13 incorrectly ...