When I try to 'emerge -D world', portage wants to install pam-login-3.17. That fails miserably, with this error message: ==================== checking whether build environment is sane... configure.in:8: version mismatch. This is Automake 1.7.9, configure.in:8: but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE configure.in:8: comes from Automake 1.9.6. You should recreate configure.in:8: aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again. WARNING: `automake-1.7' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy on your system. You might have modified some files without having the proper tools for further handling them. Check the `README' file, it often tells you about the needed prerequirements for installing this package. You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in case some other package would contain this missing `automake-1.7' program. make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1 ==================== I've got the newest automake tools installed (whatever that is :-)): ==================== ~ # emerge -Dp automake automake-wrapper These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r1 [ebuild R ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1-r1 ~ # equery l automake [ Searching for package 'automake' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.9-r1 (1.7) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r3 (1.8) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r1 (1.9) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.5 (1.5) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1-r1 (0) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6 (1.4) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.6.3 (1.6) ===================== Hm ? Hmm. emerge --info says: ===================== Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14 i686) =====================
Hmm this sounds like the timestamps does not get update in the right way. A way to fix this is by forcing an eautoreconf (that might create a bit of circular deps on stage1, not sure), but I can't reproduce that here. Make sure the clock of your system is set correctly, just to rule out a possible problem in that sense.
Ok, synced the clock: ================================= ~ # ntpdate time.nist.gov Looking for host time.nist.gov and service ntp host found : time.nist.gov 11 Feb 17:45:13 ntpdate[27659]: step time server 192.43.244.18 offset -65.462003 sec ================================= Didn't help, I get the same error when doing emerge. Here's more output, there's something that says "missing" - looks odd to me, but then again I have no clue what I'm dealing with. ================================= config.status: creating po/Makefile cd . && /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/pam-login-3.17/work/pam_login-3.17/missing --run aclocal-1.7 -I m4 /usr/share/aclocal/libmikmod.m4:11: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_LIBMIKMOD run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal /usr/share/aclocal/libgcrypt.m4:23: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_LIBGCRYPT /usr/share/aclocal/imlib.m4:9: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_IMLIB /usr/share/aclocal/imlib.m4:167: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GDK_IMLIB /usr/share/aclocal/gtk.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GTK /usr/share/aclocal/glib.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GLIB /usr/share/aclocal/audiofile.m4:12: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_AUDIOFILE /usr/share/aclocal/ao.m4:9: warning: underquoted definition of XIPH_PATH_AO /usr/share/aclocal/aalib.m4:12: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_AALIB cd . && \ /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/pam-login-3.17/work/pam_login-3.17/missing --run automake-1.7 --gnits Makefile cd . && /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/pam-login-3.17/work/pam_login-3.17/missing --run autoconf /bin/sh ./config.status --recheck running /bin/sh ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-nls --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe build_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu host_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu --no-create --no-recursion checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... configure.in:8: version mismatch. This is Automake 1.7.9, configure.in:8: but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE configure.in:8: comes from Automake 1.9.6. You should recreate configure.in:8: aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again. WARNING: `automake-1.7' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy on your system. You might have modified some files without having the proper tools for further handling them. Check the `README' file, it often tells you about the needed prerequirements for installing this package. You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in case some other package would contain this missing `automake-1.7' program. make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1 ====================================== How do I force (e?)autoreconf with emerge?
Ah, found a solution, or workaround, or whatever: # emerge -C automake automake-wrapper # emerge automake automake-wrapper I've got the exact same packages now as before, but suddenly the automake stuff works and I can emerge pam-login! I wonder. Thanks for your help!
