When m4 is not installed on the system (e.g. it was cleaned out with `emerge --depclean --with-bdeps=n`) then subsequently building systemd fails. ``` ... Checking for function "bpf" : NO Checking for function "statx" : YES Checking for function "explicit_bzero" : YES Checking for function "reallocarray" : YES Checking for function "getrandom" : YES Program sed found: YES (/bin/sed) Program awk found: YES (/usr/bin/awk) Program m4 found: NO meson.build:606:0: ERROR: Program(s) ['m4'] not found or not executable ```
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1635f6b71ec62429f8141f40565c731679d275a6 commit 1635f6b71ec62429f8141f40565c731679d275a6 Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-04-16 19:32:23 +0000 Commit: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-04-16 19:32:23 +0000 sys-apps/systemd: depend on sys-devel/m4 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/683314 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.62_p4, Repoman-2.3.12_p87 Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> sys-apps/systemd/systemd-241-r1.ebuild | 1 + sys-apps/systemd/systemd-242.ebuild | 1 + sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild | 1 + 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
