Created attachment 626558 [details] emerge-info-iptables.txt While updating my test chroot, net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1 fails with this error: * Package: net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1 * Repository: gentoo-git * Maintainer: base-system@gentoo.org * USE: abi_x86_64 amd64 elibc_glibc ipv6 kernel_linux split-usr userland_GNU * FEATURES: network-sandbox preserve-libs sandbox userpriv usersandbox * Applying iptables-1.8.4-no-symlinks.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying iptables-1.8.2-link.patch ... patching file iptables/Makefile.am Hunk #1 succeeded at 23 with fuzz 2 (offset -3 lines). [ ok ] * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1/work/iptables-1.8.4' ... * ERROR: net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1::gentoo-git failed (prepare phase): * Cannot find the latest automake! Tried 1.16.1:1.16 1.15.1:1.15 * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 125: Called src_prepare * environment, line 2030: Called eautoreconf * environment, line 1095: Called _elibtoolize '--auto-ltdl' '--install' '--copy' '--force' * environment, line 498: Called autotools_run_tool 'libtoolize' '--install' '--copy' '--force' '--automake' * environment, line 807: Called autotools_env_setup * environment, line 760: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * [[ ${WANT_AUTOMAKE} == "latest" ]] && die "Cannot find the latest automake! Tried ${_LATEST_AUTOMAKE[*]}"; * * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1::gentoo-git'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1::gentoo-git'`. * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/build/net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1:20200328-114901.log'. * For convenience, a symlink to the build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1/temp/environment'. * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1/work/iptables-1.8.4' * S: '/var/tmp/portage/net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1/work/iptables-1.8.4' After finishing the update, during which automake-1.16.2 has been installed, I retried and the build finished.
This is presumably caused by calling eautoreconf unconditionally but setting > # Force users doing their own patches to install their own tools > AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND=no The eautoreconf call used to be conditional on user patches being applied.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ad1c259756034612a7d4e5ae1bdcecae3868f36a commit ad1c259756034612a7d4e5ae1bdcecae3868f36a Author: Patrick McLean <patrick.mclean@sony.com> AuthorDate: 2020-08-21 01:00:17 +0000 Commit: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-08-21 01:00:17 +0000 net-firewall/iptables: Drop AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND=no (bug #715164) Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715164 Copyright: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.4, Repoman-3.0.1 Signed-off-by: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@gentoo.org> net-firewall/iptables/iptables-1.8.4-r2.ebuild | 3 --- net-firewall/iptables/iptables-1.8.5.ebuild | 3 --- 2 files changed, 6 deletions(-)