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Bug 284670

Summary: app-admin/eselect-python-20090824 uses autotools but doesn't depend on them
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Fabian Groffen <grobian>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Python Gentoo Team <python>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: prefix
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev 2009-09-12 10:39:08 UTC
DEPEND=">=app-admin/eselect-1.0.2"
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"

    epatch "${FILESDIR}/${P}-old-glibc.patch"
    ./autogen.sh || die "autogen.sh failed"

 * Applying eselect-python-20090824-old-glibc.patch ...                   [ ok ]
ac-wrapper: Unable to locate any usuable version of autoconf.
            I tried these versions: 2.64:2.5 2.63:2.5 2.62:2.5 2.61:2.5 2.60:2.5 2.59:2.5 2.13:2.1
            With a base name of '/Users/grobian/Gentoo/usr/bin/autoheader'.
 * ERROR: app-admin/eselect-python-20090824 failed:
 *   autogen.sh failed


eselect-python should better use eauto(re)conf from autotools.eclass, or have the right dependencies.  Even better is not to depend on autotools at all as this is quite problematic during bootstrapping (and yes, python is necessary on Gentoo-ish systems).
Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-09-14 18:42:15 UTC
Fixed.