i get an error while configuring libwww 5.4.0-r2 and emerge fails. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. an up2date ~x86 2. WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5 emerge libwww Actual Results: aclocal.m4:267: error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion autoconf/c.m4:1180: AC_C_VOLATILE is expanded from... aclocal.m4:267: the top level autom4te-2.59: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 make: *** [configure] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... !!! ERROR: net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 53, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Expected Results: a successfull configuration.. Portage 2.0.50 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040117-r0, 2.4.24) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.24 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2 /share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pu b/linux/gentoo/ http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources/ rsync://rsync3.it.gentoo.org/gentoo-sources" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apache2 apm avi cdr crypt dga dvd encode esd fbcon fooma ticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java javascript jpeg libg++ libwww mad matrox mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype unicode video_cards_matrox vim-with-x x86 xinerama xml2 xv zlib"
The problem is in the configure.in requiring autoconf-2.13, the side problem is that libtool-1.5 add the autoconf-2.50 requirement.
ok, stripped down debian's patch for updating the configure process to autoconf-2.50 and added to cvs
*** Bug 40988 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thank you SpanKY, I didn't have time to look into it this week.