While emerging apache it does not use autoconf >2.5 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. just try to emerge apache and read carefully what does the configure do. Actual Results: emerge apache Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-www/apache-2.0.48-r4 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/apache-2.0.48-r4/work patching file include/httpd.h patching file modules/ssl/ssl_engine_mutex.c patching file modules/ssl/ssl_scache_shmcb.c patching file modules/ssl/ssl_util.c patching file os/unix/unixd.c patching file server/Makefile.in patching file support/apachectl.in patching file support/apxs.in * Applying apache-2.0.48-export.diff... [ ok ] rebuilding srclib/apr/configure buildconf: checking installation... buildconf: autoconf version 2.13 (ok) buildconf: libtool version 1.5.2 (ok) Copying libtool helper files ... buildconf: Using libtool.m4 at /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4. Creating include/arch/unix/apr_private.h.in ... FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script Creating configure ... FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script rebuilding srclib/apr-util/configure Probably the easiest way to fix this would be setting WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5 in the ebuild
you neglected to provide `emerge info`
bash-2.05b# emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.3-gentoo-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13p1 distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe -ffast-math -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -w" 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/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe -ffast-math -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -w" DISTDIR="/home/ftp/pub/gentoo/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache digest distcc sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/home/ftp/pub/gentoo/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync4.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3ds S3TC X Xaw3d aalib accounting acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb bonobo cdr chroot crypt cups dga directfb dnd doc dv dvb dvd dvdr encode esd faad fbcon fbdev ffmpeg foomaticdb freetype gd gdbm ggi gif glut gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib imlib2 ipv6 jack jack-caps java javascript jpeg kde lcd lcms libg++ libwww mad mbox md5sum mikmod mldonkeypango mmx motif mozilla moznocalendar moznocompose moznoirc mozp3p mozsvg mpeg mpeg4 mule mysql nas ncurses nls nvidia nviz oggvorbis openal opengl openssh oss pam parse-clocks pda pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline regexp samba scanner sdl slang sox spell sse ssl stencil-buffer svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff transcode truetype type1 usb v4l wxwin wxwindows x86 xfs xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib"
This should be fixed in 2.0.49-r1 as well. Please test.
