Since a week or so the ebuild always fails because of: aclocal-1.10: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required Longer log below: >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/app-pda/libsyncml-9999/work/libsyncml-9999 ... * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/app-pda/libsyncml-9999/work/libsyncml-9999' ... * Running aclocal ... [ !! ] * Failed Running aclocal ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/app-pda/libsyncml-9999/temp/aclocal-7660.out * * ERROR: app-pda/libsyncml-9999 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 46: Called src_compile * environment, line 2475: Called eautoreconf * environment, line 825: Called eaclocal * environment, line 773: Called autotools_run_tool 'src_compile' * environment, line 336: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * diefunc "$FUNCNAME" "$LINENO" "$?" "Failed Running $1 !"; * The die message: * Failed Running aclocal ! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.1.4_rc8 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.3 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" 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/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en it" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local /usr/portage/local/layman" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac accessibility acpi addbookmarks alias alsa autoreplace bash-completion bluetooth branding bzip2 cddb cdparanoia cdr connectionstatus conntest contactnotes crypt css cups dbus dga dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode fam firefox fontconfig gd gif gmail gnokii gpm gps hal highlight history ical iconv imap imlib ipod irc irda java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kdepim lame live logitech-mouse mad mailwrapper midi mjpeg mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mpeg2 musicbrainz network nls nowlistening nptl nptlonly nsplugin obex offensive ogg opengl pam pda pdf png ppds profile qt3 quicktime rdesktop real sdl smime sms srt sse sse2 ssl swat symlink texteffect threadsafe tidy tiff translator truetype unicode usb userlocales vcd vorbis webpresence wifi win32codecs x86 xcomposite xine xml xorg xosd xrandr xv xvid yahoo" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="*" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This has switched to cmake, current 9999 ebuild is useless as it is.
I know, will fix it soon.
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