Bug 14453 – autoconf 2.57 doesn't install autom4te from autoconf 2.1x

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dan Armak (RETIRED) 2003-01-23 15:39:31 UTC]

After upgrading to ~x86 automake 1.7.x and autoconf 2.57, I have this: 
laptop autoconf # autom4te 
ac-wrapper: ouch, couldn't call binary (/usr/bin/autom4te-2.13). 
laptop autoconf # ls -l /usr/bin/autom4te* 
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           29 Jan 23 23:17 /usr/bin/autom4te -> 
../lib/autoconf/ac-wrapper.pl 
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        33532 Jan 23 23:17 /usr/bin/autom4te-2.57 
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What gives? Didn't have time to throughly test this, will do so tomorrow...

[Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-01-23 16:12:45 UTC]

*** Bug 14340 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-01-23 23:53:31 UTC]

err, this has been like this forever ?  autoconf-2.1 *never* had an autom4te ...

[Comment 3 Dan Armak (RETIRED) 2003-01-24 05:52:14 UTC]

So shouldn't ac-wrapper be fixed? 
Or are you saying that since the default 'mode' (barring WANT variables) is for autoconf-2.1x, 
calling autom4te in that mode should result in an error? In that case we should have at least an 
error that briefly explains this. 

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-01-24 14:01:49 UTC]

Created attachment 7606 [details]
/usr/lib/autoconf/ac-wrapper.pl

Yeah, guess.  Here is a fixed version.

[Comment 5 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-10-10 05:55:32 UTC]

Re-closing as fixed.