Bug 536428 – www-client/firefox-34.0.5-r1: Failed Running autoconf

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrey Grozin 2015-01-12 21:34:10 UTC]

* Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-34.0.5-r1/work/mozilla-release' ...
 * This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
 * update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will die
 * when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
 * Running autoconf --force ...                                                                                                [ !! ]

 * Failed Running autoconf !
 * 
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
 * 
 *   /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-34.0.5-r1/temp/autoconf.out

 * ERROR: www-client/firefox-34.0.5-r1::gentoo failed (prepare phase):
 *   Failed Running autoconf !
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *     ebuild.sh, line   93:  Called src_prepare
 *   environment, line 5218:  Called eautoreconf
 *   environment, line 1654:  Called eautoconf '--force'
 *   environment, line 1570:  Called autotools_run_tool '--at-m4flags' 'autoconf' '--force'
 *   environment, line 1221:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           die "Failed Running $1 !";


dns ~ # eix sys-devel/autoconf
[I] sys-devel/autoconf
     Available versions:  
     (2.1)  2.13
     (2.59) 2.59-r7
     (2.61) 2.61-r2
     (2.62) 2.62-r1
     (2.63) 2.63-r1
     (2.64) 2.64
     (2.65) 2.65-r1
     (2.67) 2.67
     (2.68) 2.68
     (2.5)  2.69
     (9999) **9999
       {emacs multislot USERLAND="BSD"}
     Installed versions:  2.13(2.1)(00:09:16 05.11.2012) 2.69(2.5)(23:12:17 20.12.2013)(emacs -multislot)
     Homepage:            http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html
     Description:         Used to create autoconfiguration files


dns ~ # eix sys-devel/automake
[U] sys-devel/automake
     Available versions:  
     (1.4)  1.4_p6-r2
     (1.5)  1.5-r2
     (1.6)  1.6.3-r2
     (1.7)  1.7.9-r3
     (1.8)  1.8.5-r5
     (1.9)  1.9.6-r4
     (1.10) 1.10.3-r1
     (1.11) 1.11.6-r1
     (1.12) 1.12.6
     (1.13) 1.13.4
     (1.14) (~)1.14.1
     (1.15) (~)1.15
     (9999) **9999
     Installed versions:  1.11.6(1.11)(00:09:45 05.11.2012) 1.12.6(1.12)(17:36:30 21.12.2012) 1.13.4(1.13)(20:49:19 17.06.2013) 1.14.1(1.14)(06:05:19 26.12.2013) 1.15(1.15)(03:58:47 11.01.2015)
     Homepage:            http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
     Description:         Used to generate Makefile.in from Makefile.am

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2015-01-12 23:24:55 UTC]

Please re-sync and try again.

[Comment 2 Grant Edwards 2015-01-13 03:27:13 UTC]

I had the exact same error this afternoon building firefox-31.3.0.

I just did an emerge --sync a few minutes ago, and now firefox is biulding.

[Comment 3 Andrey Grozin 2015-01-13 14:29:27 UTC]

35.0 has emerged fine. Thanks.