Bugzilla Bug 54450

Possibly related to automake=1.5 problems because using "WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.4
emerge aalib" succeeds without any trouble.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge aalib
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Making all in src
make[1]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/aalib-1.4_rc4-r2/work/aalib-1.4.0/src'
cd .. && automake --foreign --include-deps src/Makefile
automake-1.5: configure.in: required file `./depcomp' not found
/usr/share/automake-1.5/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.5/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.5/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.5/am/lang-compile.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
make[1]: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/aalib-1.4_rc4-r2/work/aalib-1.4.0/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

!!! ERROR: media-libs/aalib-1.4_rc4-r2 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 53, Exitcode 2


Expected Results:  
aalib emerges successfully

Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0,
2.6.5-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 Celeron (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops"
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/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops"
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 aalib alsa apm avi berkdb cjk crypt cups directfb encode esd fbcon
foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++
libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nocardbus oggvorbis opengl
oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl
slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype trusted x86 xml xml2 xmms xv
zlib"

nice catch, Greg, fixed in portage.

*** Bug 54462 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***