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Bug 284670 - app-admin/eselect-python-20090824 uses autotools but doesn't depend on them
Summary: app-admin/eselect-python-20090824 uses autotools but doesn't depend on them
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Python Gentoo Team
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Reported: 2009-09-12 10:39 UTC by Fabian Groffen
Modified: 2009-09-14 18:42 UTC (History)
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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.