emerge -u vnc fails with following error: <............> * Done with patching * Running eautoreconf in '/tmp/portage/net-misc/vnc-4.1.2-r2/work/vnc-4_1_2-unixsrc/common' ... * Running aclocal ... [ !! ] * Failed Running aclocal ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /tmp/portage/net-misc/vnc-4.1.2-r2/temp/aclocal-16598.out !!! ERROR: net-misc/vnc-4.1.2-r2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 751: Called qa_call 'src_unpack' environment, line 3517: Called src_unpack vnc-4.1.2-r2.ebuild, line 91: Called eautoreconf autotools.eclass, line 93: Called eaclocal autotools.eclass, line 130: Called autotools_run_tool 'aclocal' autotools.eclass, line 218: Called die !!! Failed Running aclocal ! !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/tmp/portage/net-misc/vnc-4.1.2-r2/temp/build.log'. /tmp/portage/net-misc/vnc-4.1.2-r2/temp/aclocal-16598.out contens is ***** aclocal ***** aclocal-1.10: `configure.ac' and `configure.in' both present. aclocal-1.10: proceeding with `configure.ac'. configure.ac:4: error: Autoconf version 2.61 or higher is required configure.ac:4: the top level autom4te-2.60: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63 aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 63 ============================ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.2 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-hardened_inetoncd i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-hardened_inetoncd i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 06 May 2007 03:50:01 +0000 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 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, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-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/gconf /etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo-ru.greenmice.info/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="ru_RU.utf8" LINGUAS="ru" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://localhost/gentoo-portage" USE="X apache2 berkdb bzip2 cracklib crypt fam gif hardened imap jpeg libwww logrotate maildir midi mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openssl pam pcre png readline sasl slang sse2 ssl tcpd threads truetype unicode urandom vhosts x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa vmware i810" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY ============================ $ emerge -pv vnc These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] net-misc/vnc-4.1.2-r2 [4.1.2] USE="server" 0 kB
BTW, autoconf 2.61 is masked. I have 2.13 and 2.60 installed.
Why is masked?
(In reply to comment #2) > Why is masked? Bug 161566
Fixed in patchset 0.2. Sync in ~2 hours and it should work. Thanks for reporting.
