When emerging x11-misc/xcompmgr-1.1 it fails because it specifically wants aclocal-1.7 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do not have automake-1.7 installed 2. Type 'emerge x11-misc/xcompmgr-1.1' Actual Results: ... >>> Source unpacked. am-wrapper: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.7 is missing or not executable. Please try emerging the correct version of automake. autoreconf-2.59: Entering directory `.' autoreconf-2.59: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf-2.59: running: aclocal --output=aclocal.m4t am-wrapper: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.7 is missing or not executable. Please try emerging the correct version of automake. autoreconf-2.59: aclocal failed with exit status: 1 Expected Results: ... Emerge successful! Auto-cleaning packages Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 4 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups curl eds emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xine xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
(In reply to comment #0) > When emerging x11-misc/xcompmgr-1.1 it fails because it specifically wants > aclocal-1.7 That's not an ebuild bug. Re-emerge automake-wrapper (and *all* required automake versions) and stop unmerging them.
