seems like this version of exo doesen't like autoconf > 2.61 but it's not in its dependancies # cat /var/tmp/portage/xfce-extra/exo-0.3.4-r1/temp/autoconf-1547.out ***** autoconf ***** ***** autoconf aclocal.m4:14: error: this file was generated for autoconf 2.61. You have another version of autoconf. If you want to use that, you should regenerate the build system entirely. aclocal.m4:14: the top level autom4te-2.62: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge to update exo # emerge --info WARNING: repository at /usr/local/portage is missing a repo_name entry Portage 2.2_rc12 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r7-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1.60GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:45:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.62-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 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="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -m32" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/init.d /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sound /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -m32" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="candy ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.ing.unibo.it/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://213.186.33.37/gentoo-distfiles/ http://213.186.33.37/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="it" MAKEOPTS="-j2" 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" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac acpi alsa amrnb amrwb apache2 asf audacious audiofile bash-completion bluetooth bundled-libs bzip2 bzlib cairo calendar cdda cdio cdparanoia chardet cli cracklib crypt cups dbus directfb divx4linux dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread dynamic effects escreen ethereal exif fb fbcon fbsplash ffmpeg flac flash font-server foomaticdb freetype ftp fuse gecko-sdk geoip gif gimp gimpprint glitz gphoto2 gpm graphviz gtk hal iconv icq id3 imagemagick imlib inkjar ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript jbig jikes jpeg jpeg2k lame libnotify libsamplerate lm_sensors lzw-tiff matroska midi mjpeg mmx mng motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mudflap mysql mysqli ncurses nls nodrm nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl php plugin pmu png pnp posix ppds pppd pulseaudio python radiotap rar readline reflection reiser4 reiserfs rtc samba session slang sockets spamassassin spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stroke svg sysfs tcpd theora threads thumbnail tiff tokenizer tordns truetype unicode usb userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs wma wmf wxgtk1 wxwindows x11vnc x86 xchatdccserver xface xfce xforms xine xinerama xml xorg xosd xpm xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yv12 zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" 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" APACHE2_MPMS="itk" CAMERAS="*" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics wacom joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia fbdev v4l" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Please make sure you have the latest version that we have in the tree. This should have been updated on Fri Nov 14 15:53:48 2008 UTC, and you synced on: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:45:01 +0000 http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/xfce-extra/exo/exo-0.3.4-r1.ebuild?rev=1.9&view=log Reopen if necessary, thx
fine: the error went away. now I've hit bug #247095 :(