When I emerge zsnes I get the following: * Failed Running aclocal ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/zsnes-1.42/temp/aclocal-17653.out !!! ERROR: games-emulation/zsnes-1.42 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 708: Called src_unpack zsnes-1.42.ebuild, line 35: Called eautoreconf autotools.eclass, line 83: Called eaclocal autotools.eclass, line 121: Called autotools_run_tool 'aclocal' autotools.eclass, line 242: Called die !!! Failed Running aclocal ! !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. In /var/tmp/portage/zsnes-1.42/temp/aclocal-17653.out is the following ***** aclocal ***** am-wrapper: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.10 is missing or not executable. Please try emerging the correct version of automake. Emerging automake-1.10 which is currently marked unstable solves the issue. I'm not sure why a stable package has unstable dependencies. emerge info: Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:00:02 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac aiglx alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr elibc_glibc emboss encode fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imap input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog joystick jpeg kernel_linux libg++ linguas_en mad matroska mikmod mp3 mpeg musepack ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session sndfile spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia vorbis x264 xml xorg xprint xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
your analysis is incorrect, it doesnt have unstable dependencies ive fixed up the autotool code in cvs
