Bug 109634 – emerge --update gtkspell fails

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Alan Young 2005-10-17 14:33:38 UTC]

I normally do 'emerge --deep --newuse --update --verbose --ask --tree <pkg>'. 
Doing this for world says that gtkspell needs to be updated:

[ebuild     U ]  app-text/gtkspell-2.0.11 [2.0.4-r1] +doc 0 kB

I choose yes and it looks like (I'm not sure) that the configure fails:

config.status: executing default-1 commands
cd . && /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/gtkspell-2.0.11/work/gtkspell-2.0.11/missing
--run aclocal-1.7 
aclocal: configure.ac: 71: macro `AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1

!!! ERROR: app-text/gtkspell-2.0.11 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 41, Exitcode 2
!!! compile failure
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

I get the same error message when just doing 'emerge --update gtkspell'.

I can't find the package that installs aclocal, so I can't figure out which
package to unmerge and re-emerge, so I can't tell you whether or not that works.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge --deep --newuse --update --verbose --ask --tree [ world | gtkspell ]
2. wait for it to error out
3. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Actual Results:  
config.status: executing default-1 commands
cd . && /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/gtkspell-2.0.11/work/gtkspell-2.0.11/missing
--run aclocal-1.7 
aclocal: configure.ac: 71: macro `AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1

!!! ERROR: app-text/gtkspell-2.0.11 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 41, Exitcode 2
!!! compile failure
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.


Expected Results:  
Updated gtkspell from 2.0.4r-1 to 2.0.11.

[Comment 1 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2006-01-08 14:03:25 UTC]

this macro comes from:
/usr/share/aclocal/glib-gettext.m4
from package: 
dev-libs/glib

if you are still having this issue, please try rebuilding glib and try upgrading gtkspell again.