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Bug 32198 - Arts install fails when trying to use m4
Summary: Arts install fails when trying to use m4
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] KDE (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo KDE team
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Reported: 2003-10-28 09:24 UTC by Mike Hostetler
Modified: 2003-11-08 14:03 UTC (History)
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Description Mike Hostetler 2003-10-28 09:24:06 UTC 
When installing arts, the configure fails when trying to use /usr/bin/m4




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge arts
2.
3.



Expected Results:  
>>> Unpacking arts-1.1.4.tar.bz2 to /usr/local/portage/portage/arts-1.1.4/work
patching file flow/gsl/configure.in.in
Running sed on Makefile.am
Running sed on Makefile.in
patching file detect-autoconf.sh
>>> Source unpacked.
Performing head fix on acinclude.m4
Performing head fix on aclocal.m4
Performing head fix on admin/cvs.sh
Performing head fix on debian/rules
*** Creating acinclude.m4
*** Creating list of subdirectories
*** Creating configure.in
*** Creating aclocal.m4
*** Creating configure
configure.in:37: /usr/bin/m4: Warning: Excess arguments to built-in `m4_pushdef'
ignored
autom4te-2.57a: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
make: *** [cvs] Error 1

!!! ERROR: kde-base/arts-1.1.4 failed.
!!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 106, Exitcode 1
!!! no configure script found, generation unsuccessful


mikeh@gideon:pts/3:300 files 9.4Mb -> qpkg -v -f /usr/bin/m4
sys-devel/m4-1.4 *

mikeh@gideon:pts/3:300 files 9.4Mb -> emerge info
Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r6
)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.9
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/local/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/
ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/local/portage"
PORTDIR="/usr/local/portage/portage-db"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/overlay"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="arts kde qt x86 oss apm avi crypt encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad
mikmod mmx ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib
gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline aalib svga tcltk java guile X sdl gpm tcpd
pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk cdr scanner bonobo cups
gtk2 jikes -motif mozilla mpeg -opengl pda plotutils -qtmt tetex -alsa usb"
Comment 1 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-31 16:25:14 UTC 
What version of autoconf do you have?

There's a bug in 2.57a, so make sure you're using 2.57a-r1.
Comment 2 Mike Hostetler 2003-11-08 07:29:38 UTC 
Yes, that worked.  Sorry I didn't get back sooner.
Comment 3 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-08 14:03:26 UTC 
fixed with latest autoconf