Bug 259023 – app-emulation/libvirt-0.4.6-r1 fails to emerge without pkgconfig

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Russell Haering 2009-02-14 23:24:42 UTC]

Attempting to emerge app-emulation/libvirt-0.4.6-r1 without pkgconfig causes autoconf to fail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Without pkgconfig installed:
1. emerge -av =app-emulation/libvirt-0.4.6-r1
Actual Results:  
 * Failed Running autoconf !
 * 
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
 * 
 *   /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libvirt-0.4.6-r1/temp/autoconf-25797.out
 * 
 * ERROR: app-emulation/libvirt-0.4.6-r1 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_unpack
 *             environment, line 2547:  Called eautoreconf
 *             environment, line  839:  Called eautoconf
 *             environment, line  782:  Called autotools_run_tool 'autoconf'
 *             environment, line  327:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           die "Failed Running $1 !";
 *  The die message:
 *   Failed Running autoconf !

Contents of /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libvirt-0.4.6-r1/temp/autoconf-25797.out:
***** autoconf *****
***** autoconf

configure.in:52: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.in:340: error: possibly undefined macro: PKG_CHECK_MODULES

Expected Results:  
Successful emerge.

Emerging pkgconfig before libvirt appears to resolve the issue.

[Comment 1 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2009-02-20 17:47:26 UTC]

Fixed in the tree cause I ran into this myself.