When installing media-libs/id3lib-3.8.3-r4 it fails to run aclocal. It outputs "eaclocal: 'm4' does not exist" and the contents of /var/tmp/portage/id3lib-3.8.3-r4/temp/aclocal-25490.out are: ***** aclocal ***** aclocal: couldn't open directory `m4': No such file or directory Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge id3lib 2. 3. Actual Results: Program fails to get past running of aclocal; attempts to open non-existent directory. Expected Results: Install id3lib Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-ck6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-ck6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11 distcc 2.18.3 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoclean autoconfig ccache distlocks nostrip parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.llarian.net/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aac aalib alsa audiofile avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdr divx4linux dvdr encode f77 ffmpeg fortran gif gnome gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg mad mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pic png python quicktime readline real sdl slang sse ssl tcpd truetype userlocales vorbis win32codecs xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
It probably is also noteworthy that i do have sys-devel/m4 installed
Fixing a bug in autotools eclass broke ebuilds that were using AT_M4DIR and multiple subdirectories. Fixed now in CVS the id3lib ebuild.