Bugzilla Bug 217474

xorg-server fails to build with autoconf-2.62. Reverting to autoconf-2.61-r1
works as usual.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
* Running aclocal ...                                                          
   [ !! ]

 * Failed Running aclocal !
 *
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
 *
 *   /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.0.90-r3/temp/aclocal-9327.out

 *
 * ERROR: x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.0.90-r3 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_unpack
 *             environment, line 3170:  Called x-modular_reconf_source
 *             environment, line 3859:  Called eautoreconf
 *             environment, line 1042:  Called eaclocal
 *             environment, line  981:  Called autotools_run_tool 'src_unpack'
 *             environment, line  439:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           die "Failed Running $1 !";
 *  The die message:
 *   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
'/var/tmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.0.90-r3/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.0.90-r3/temp/environment'.
 *

aclocal-9327.out:
***** aclocal *****
***** aclocal

configure.ac:1965: error: AC_SUBST: `libdir exec_prefix prefix' is not a valid
shell variable name
configure.ac:1965: the top level
autom4te-2.62: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1




# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.5_rc2 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.2.3, glibc-2.7-r2,
2.6.24-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor
4200+
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:45:02 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.5
dev-lang/python:     2.5.1-r5
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.24
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -pipe -fforce-addr -fivopts -ftree-vectorize
-funroll-loops -fsplit-ivs-in-unroller -fvariable-expansion-in-unroller -msse3"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo
/etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -pipe -fforce-addr -fivopts -ftree-vectorize
-funroll-loops -fsplit-ivs-in-unroller -fvariable-expansion-in-unroller -msse3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict
unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS=""
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=60
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --compress-level=9
--progress"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects
/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 amrnb audiofile berkdb
bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli clickurl cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dts
dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd exif expat fastcgi fat fbcon fbcondecor ffmpeg
firefox flac fortran ftp gcj gdbm ggi gif gimp glitz glut gmail gnutls gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal hddtemp iconv imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog ithreads
javascript jpeg kqemu libcaca libffi libnotify libwww mad matroska midi mikmod
mmap mmx mmxext mng mp2 mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib musepack nautilus
ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia nxclient offensive ogg openal
opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pop portaudio pppd python quicktime radio
rar readline reflection rss rtc savepwd sdl server session sharedmem slang
sndfile speex spl srt sse sse2 ssl ssse3 svg tcpd theora threads tiff truetype
unicode v4l2 videos vim-pager vim-syntax vim-with-x vncviewer vorbis wifi x264
xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xmlrpc xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvnc
zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci
emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m
maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
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" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias
authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs
dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter
headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation
rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias"
ELIBC="glibc" FOO2ZJS_DEVICES="hp2600n" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse"
KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001
mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS

duplicate of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217128

(In reply to comment #1)
> duplicate of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217128

Thanks, marking as such.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 217128 ***