Bugzilla Bug 148199

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5)
Gecko/20060804 Firefox/1.5.0.5
Build Identifier: 

libwww depends on automake-1.4, which is not marked as dependency of libwww




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge -C =sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6 
2.emerge -v =net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r4
3.







gojira ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.16.26-xen-dom0-2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16.26-xen-dom0-2 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.13GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:20:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /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/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer
parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.localhost.net.ar/
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"
LINGUAS=""
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise
/usr/portage/local/layman/vmware"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acl acpi alsa arts bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo
cdr cli crypt cups dbus dedicated dlloader dri dvd dvdr elibc_glibc emboss
encode esd fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gstreamer hal icc
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal
kdexdeltas kerberos kernel_linux ldap libg++ logrotate mad mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg
ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pam_console pcre perl png
ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sasl sdl
session
speex spell spl sse ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode
userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia
video_cards_vesa video_cards_via vorbis win32codecs xcomposite xml xorg xv
zeroconf zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

I can confirm this. Without automake-1.4_p6 compilation of libwww-5.4.0-r4
fails with:

 * Failed Running aclocal !
 *
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
 *
 *   /var/tmp/portage/libwww-5.4.0-r6/temp/aclocal-25276.out


!!! ERROR: net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r6 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1546:   Called dyn_unpack
  ebuild.sh, line 708:   Called src_unpack
  libwww-5.4.0-r6.ebuild, line 53:   Called eautoreconf
  autotools.eclass, line 79:   Called eaclocal
  autotools.eclass, line 116:   Called autotools_run_tool 'aclocal'
  autotools.eclass, line 212:   Called die

!!! Failed Running aclocal !
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.

same here

Fixed by forcing latest version of autotools for all ebuilds.