when emergeing mozilla-thunderbird-1.5, after unpacking, "running autoconf" fails with: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***** autoconf ***** build/autoconf/altoptions.m4:156: error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion build/autoconf/altoptions.m4:153: MOZ_READ_MOZCONFIG is expanded from... build/autoconf/altoptions.m4:156: the top level autom4te-2.59: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here's output of emerge info Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-nitro1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-nitro1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1300MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 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: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/" LC_ALL="de_DE@euro" LINGUAS="de" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlay/local /usr/local/overlay/gentoo-de /usr/local/zugaina-portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cdb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dbus divx4linux dri dts dvd dvdread emboss encode esd ethereal evo exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran frontendonly gdbm gif glut gmp gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal i8x0 icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 irmc java jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal kdepim lcms libg++ libwww lua lufsusermount lzo mad maildir mhash mikmod mjpeg mmx mng mono motif mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer mysql mythtv ncurses network nls nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis ooo-kde openal opengl operanom2 oss pam pcre pdflib perl png povray ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl silc spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis wifi win32codecs wxwindows xine xml2 xmms xosd xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
hmmm have you modified the ebuild or something? As it stands it should be running autoreconf-2.13 not 2.59.
I just did an emerge sync to be sure, no, nothing has been changed in the ebuild..
Looks like I will force it to use auto(conf|make) 2.13 should be fixed in next few hours.
I have made the changes mirrors should have them soon.
Has been fixed in tree for a while now.