I was trying to emerge media-libs/libcanberra-0.14 and it gave an aclocal error. I looked online to see there was a problem with this but I didn't fall under those conditions so I upgraded automake and it solved the libcanberra problem. This is on an amd64 arch.
Please paste the output of 'emerge --info' into a bugzilla comment to assist the maintainers in resolving this issue Additionally please supply output that emerge prints when the package fails to build/configure/whatever if you could please.
emerge --info, build.log, ... please.
i'm sorry that machine was destroyed by a bad binutils update
dms dms # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.7-r2, 2.6.25-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r4-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3500+-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:15:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r11, 2.5.2-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.62 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.25 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -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/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ " LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="ru en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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/layman/qutim-overlay /usr/i686-mingw32/usr/portage /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss enca encode esd evo fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde lame ldap libnotify mad matroska mikmod mmx mmx2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 spl srt sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff true vid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="usb-audio emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw ks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plu ions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate di r headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiat r usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERN hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru en" SANE_BACKENDS=" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_A E_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS dms dms # cat /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libcanberra-0.14/temp/build.log >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking libcanberra-0.14.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libcanberra-0.14/work * Applying libcanberra-0.14-backward-compatibility-libtool.patch [ ok ] * Applying libcanberra-0.14-am-gconf-source-2-m4.patch ... [ ok ] * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libcanberra-0.14/work/libcanberra-0.14' ... * Running aclocal -I m4 ... [ !! ] * Failed Running aclocal ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libcanberra-0.14/temp/aclocal.out * * ERROR: media-libs/libcanberra-0.14 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_unpack * environment, line 2898: Called eautoreconf * environment, line 891: Called eaclocal * environment, line 830: Called autotools_run_tool 'aclocal * environment, line 381: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "Failed Running $1 !"; * The die message: * Failed Running aclocal ! * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack i * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libcanb * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/ * Same trouble. :) I hope info will help you...
* Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libcanberra-0.14/temp/aclocal.out Please do what portage says.
dms dms # cat /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libcanberra-0.15-r1/temp/aclocal.out ***** aclocal ***** ***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libcanberra-0.15-r1/work/libcanberra-0.15 ***** aclocal -I m4 configure.ac:26: error: Autoconf version 2.63 or higher is required configure.ac:26: the top level autom4te-2.62: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63 aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 63
emerge -1 autoconf solved problem, but it will be better to include this dependency to ebuild.
there is no reason to not have latest stable autoconf installed.
