Bugzilla Bug 220177

tried m4 versions: 1.4.11 and 1.4.10-r3 on two different amd64 systems and one
x86 system resulted in the same error:

# cat /var/tmp/portage/net-fs/am-utils-6.1.5/temp/aclocal-8440.out
***** aclocal *****
***** aclocal

acinclude.m4:3971: the serial number must appear before any macro definition
acinclude.m4:10530: error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion
acinclude.m4:10530: 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_rc6 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.2.3, glibc-2.7-r2,
2.6.23-gentoo-r9 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r9 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 FX-60 Dual Core
Processor
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 03 May 2008 23:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r11, 2.5.2-r2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.2.3
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.62
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2,
1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.25-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon64 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
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="-Os -march=athlon64 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/n/mali/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks parallel-fetch sfperms strict unmerge-orphans
userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS=""
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/n/mali/usr/portage/packages"
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"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl alsa amd64 berkdb cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri fortran gdbm gpm
hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog kde midi mmx mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp
pam pcre perl pppd python qt readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd
unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" 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"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard kbd mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad
cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU"
VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia fbdev vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

*** Bug 222593 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I've had the same problem here on Gentoo/FreeBSD. I noticed that aclocal-1.7
runs fine, but there will be problems with autoconf later.

It seems to work fine though when you revert to autoconf-2.61-r1. There seems
to be a misconfiguration in the m4 code of autoconf-2.62.

Here is a more detailled list of the autotools used:

sys-devel/autoconf-2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake-1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/automake-1.10.1 also works (this one on Gentoo/Linux)
sys-devel/automake-wrapper-3-r1
sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-4-r3

also installed but not used:
sys-devel/automake-1.7.9-r1

Hope that helps.

(In reply to comment #0)
autoconf-2.61-r2 also works suggesting that there is some definite
incompatibility with 2.62* (thus far).

Keep in mind that if you use autoconf-2.61* you will also need to revert
libtool also or the am-utils make will fail further inwards.  (I successfully
used libtool-1.5.26)

PLEASE BE ADVISED:

courier-authlib 0.61.0

suffers from the exact same autoconf and libtool problems during compilation

*both* autoconf _and_ libtool need to be reverted to earlier versions for the
compile to complete successfully without onerous and disgusting user
intervention

I used autoconf 2.61-r2 and libtool 1.5.26

(In reply to comment #4)
> ...
> *both* autoconf _and_ libtool need to be reverted to earlier versions for the
> compile to complete successfully without onerous and disgusting user
> intervention
> 
> I used autoconf 2.61-r2 and libtool 1.5.26

I can confirm that downgrading to those versions works for Gentoo/Linux; using
both sys-devel/autoconf-2.63 & sys-devel/libtool-2.2.6a still fail.

The acinclude.m4 file should be removed, and m4 should be added to AT_M4_DIR,
instead, possibly removing libtool files, otherwise it fails with a message
about serials.

*** Bug 240754 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***