Bugzilla Bug 37328

This is after unmerging an earlier version of kdelibs due to its being a
blocker for upgrading qt. Results:

cd . && make -f admin/Makefile.common configure.in
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.1.4/work/kdelibs-3.1.4'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.1.4/work/kdelibs-3.1.4'
cd . && /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.1.4/work/kdelibs-3.1.4/admin/missing
--run aclocal-1.7 
cd . && \
  /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.1.4/work/kdelibs-3.1.4/admin/missing --run
automake-1.7 --foreign  Makefile
cd . && /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.1.4/work/kdelibs-3.1.4/admin/missing
--run autoconf
NONE:0: /usr/bin/m4: ERROR: EOF in argument list
autom4te-2.57: cannot not rename autom4te.cache/traces.0t as
autom4te.cache/traces.0: No such file or directory
configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal).
configure.in: required file `./install-sh' not found
configure.in: required file `./mkinstalldirs' not found
configure.in: required file `./missing' not found
SUBDIRS: variable `TOPSUBDIRS' is used but `TOPSUBDIRS' is undefined
make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

!!! ERROR: kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4 failed.
!!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 123, Exitcode 2
!!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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# emerge info
Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.20)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU - S         1400MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X apm arts avi berkdb crypt encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib
java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang
spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

Same error here, emerging kde/qt for first time. Any ideas to solve it?

Upgrade to autoconf-2.57a or even higher.  I believe 2.57a fixes a bug that's
in 2.57.  Versions below this worked as well, but for some reason it looks like
2.57 is buggy.  I'm working on finding a resolution.

Forcing single process built (-j1) "solves" the problem.

FYI: autoconf-2.58 worked just fine

autoconf-2.57a worked as suggested. Thanks.

But then...

# emerge -up world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies |
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-devel/autoconf" have been masked.
!!!    (dependency required by "kde-base/kdeedu-3.1.4" [ebuild])

!!! Problem with ebuild kde-base/kde-3.1.4
!!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.

!!! Depgraph creation failed.
# emerge -up kdeedu               

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies |
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-devel/autoconf" have been masked.
!!!    (dependency required by "kde-base/kdeedu-3.1.4" [ebuild])

!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.

I do have in /etc/portage/package.mask:

<sys-devel/autoconf-2.57a-r1

to keep -u world from downgrading autoconf. Should I file this separately as a bug against kdeedu? Shouldn't it accept autoconf-2.57a-r1, which is installed?

The problem is that autoconf is ~unstable.

Portage will always try to downgrade it unless you run emerge -U.

The solution is to stabilize autoconf, which I am working hard to get done.

*** Bug 37479 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This is a blocker on a new KDE install, unless the unstable autoconf-2.57a is
merged manually.

Note also after an apparently successful emerge of autoconf-2.57-r1

#autoconf --version
Autoconf version 2.13

latest ebuild informs you that you need to upgrade.

seeing autoconf version 2.13 isn't a bug - it's normal.  there's a wrapper that takes care of calling the proper autoconf version; this is working fine.

Ran into this making a test GRP set for sparc64

*** Bug 37683 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

should be fixed now