I did an emerge -u world and it failed when it came to cups. Here is the screen buffer of that.... >>> Downloading ftp://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/cups-1.1.20-source.tar.bz2 --02:22:52-- ftp://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/cups-1.1.20-source.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/cups-1.1.20-source.tar.bz2' Resolving gentoo.oregonstate.edu... 128.193.0.3 Connecting to gentoo.oregonstate.edu[128.193.0.3]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/gentoo/distfiles ... done. ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR cups-1.1.20-source.tar.bz2 ... done. Length: 3,741,510 (unauthoritative) 100%[================================================================================>] 3,741,510 210.26K/s ETA 00:00 02:23:10 (209.86 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/cups-1.1.20-source.tar.bz2' saved [3741510] >>> md5 src_uri ;-) cups-1.1.20-source.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking cups-1.1.20-source.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/cups-1.1.20/work * Applying disable-strip.patch... [ ok ]FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script !!! ERROR: net-print/cups-1.1.20 failed. !!! Function src_unpack, Line 31, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -u cups 2. 3. Actual Results: failed because autoconf Expected Results: installed the updated cups
What does `autoconf --version` output? Try it with `WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1 emerge -u world` On a side note, there should be a better way to fix it, if someone wants to offer more input.
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