Upgrading to sys-devel/m4-1.4.10-r1 causes all ebuilds which require autoconf to fail, giving an error of: autom4te-2.61: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /usr/bin/m4 Reverting to sys-devel/m4-1.4.10 causes behavior to return to normal Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge sys-devel/m4-1.4.10-r1 2.try to emerge any package built using autoconf Actual Results: make: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-editors/vim-core-7.1.266/work/vim71/src' if test ! -f configure.save; then mv configure configure.save; fi autoconf autom4te-2.61: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /usr/bin/m4 make: *** [autoconf] Error 1 make: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-editors/vim-core-7.1.266/work/vim71/src' * * ERROR: app-editors/vim-core-7.1.266 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2701: Called vim_src_compile * environment, line 3576: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5 make -j1 -C src $confrule || die "make $confrule failed"; * The die message: * make autoconf failed Expected Results: normal compilation fails with or without distcc enabled. attempting to emerge autoconf with m4-1.4.10-r1 also fails # m4 --version m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.10 no problems with the new version on my amd64 box
# emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/server, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo i586) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor Timestamp of tree: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:45:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r9 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 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: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=k6-2 -march=k6-2 -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=k6-2 -march=k6-2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distcc distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl apache2 berkdb cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog ldap mailwrapper midi mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session snmp spl ssl symlink tcpd truetype unicode vhosts x86 xml xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 i810 imstt mach64 mga neomagic nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
m4-1.4.10 works m4-1.4.10-r1 fails m4-1.4.10-r2 fails m4-1.4.11 works
probably the lseek bsd patch ... i'll drop the patch for 1.4.10-r3 and push it into stable since that was the only change from 1.4.10
Just adding that 1.4.10-r3 indeed works
