Trying to install non-in-portage app (it is sci-electronics/pcb, but from CVS tree), have got the error: ______________ ... checking for m4... /usr/bin/m4 checking if /usr/bin/m4 has the division involving negative numbers bug... yes configure: error: It appears that /usr/bin/m4 has a bug involving division with negative numbers. In particular it just returned the result that -2/2 = 2147483647 instead of -1. This is a known bug in GNU m4-1.4.9. Please install a non-broken m4. ... _______________ OTOH, this m4 version is 'stable' in portage. Is it worth to mark 1.4.9 as 'unstable', or have I missed something?
you forgot `emerge --info` also, post information on how to reproduce this issue over here
'emerge --info' output is: Portage 2.1.3_rc6 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:30:07 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 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: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe" 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/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j4" 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="/wrk/tmp/portage" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X acl akode alsa amd64 audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups dbus dri dssi dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode exif ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fluidsynth fortran gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm hal hdsp iconv ieee1394 isdnlog jack jpeg kde kdexdelta kdexdeltas kqemu ladspa lame lash ldap libg++ libsamplerate licq lirc lm_sensors lv2 mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp osc oss pam pcre pdf perl pertty png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session sndfile soundtouch spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl tcpd tif tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis wmf x264 xine xml xorg xosd xv xvid zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hdsp virmidi" 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" CAMERAS="canon ptp2 directory" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIRC_DEVICES="serial" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 123892 [details] self-made ebuild file This ebuild file is under using to emerge 'pcb' app from CVS.
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-m4@gnu.org/msg02084.html
added fix from upstream to 1.4.9-r1
