Bugzilla Bug 177403

emerge -u vnc fails with following error:

<............>
 * Done with patching
 * Running eautoreconf in
'/tmp/portage/net-misc/vnc-4.1.2-r2/work/vnc-4_1_2-unixsrc/common' ...
 * Running aclocal ...                                                         
                                                       [ !! ]

 * Failed Running aclocal !
 *
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
 *
 *   /tmp/portage/net-misc/vnc-4.1.2-r2/temp/aclocal-16598.out


!!! ERROR: net-misc/vnc-4.1.2-r2 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1614:   Called dyn_unpack
  ebuild.sh, line 751:   Called qa_call 'src_unpack'
  environment, line 3517:   Called src_unpack
  vnc-4.1.2-r2.ebuild, line 91:   Called eautoreconf
  autotools.eclass, line 93:   Called eaclocal
  autotools.eclass, line 130:   Called autotools_run_tool 'aclocal'
  autotools.eclass, line 218:   Called die

!!! Failed Running aclocal !
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at
'/tmp/portage/net-misc/vnc-4.1.2-r2/temp/build.log'.


/tmp/portage/net-misc/vnc-4.1.2-r2/temp/aclocal-16598.out contens is


***** aclocal *****

aclocal-1.10: `configure.ac' and `configure.in' both present.
aclocal-1.10: proceeding with `configure.ac'.
configure.ac:4: error: Autoconf version 2.61 or higher is required
configure.ac:4: the top level
autom4te-2.60: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 63


============================

$ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.2 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4,
2.6.18-hardened_inetoncd i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-hardened_inetoncd i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 06 May 2007 03:50:01 +0000
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r3, 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
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"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms
strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo-ru.greenmice.info/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LC_ALL="ru_RU.utf8"
LINGUAS="ru"
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
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://localhost/gentoo-portage"
USE="X apache2 berkdb bzip2 cracklib crypt fam gif hardened imap jpeg libwww
logrotate maildir midi mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openssl pam pcre png
readline sasl slang sse2 ssl tcpd threads truetype unicode urandom vhosts x86
xorg zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty
extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null
plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard
mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216
lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa
vmware i810"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

============================
$ emerge -pv vnc

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] net-misc/vnc-4.1.2-r2 [4.1.2] USE="server" 0 kB

BTW, autoconf 2.61 is masked.
I have 2.13 and 2.60 installed.

Why is masked?

(In reply to comment #2)
> Why is masked?

Bug 161566

Fixed in patchset 0.2. Sync in ~2 hours and it should work.

Thanks for reporting.