Bug 110164 – Emerge xcompmgr-1.1 fails - uses automake 1.7 instead of latest version

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Andrew Tinney 2005-10-22 11:10:17 UTC]

When emerging x11-misc/xcompmgr-1.1 it fails because it specifically wants
aclocal-1.7

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Do not have automake-1.7 installed
2. Type 'emerge x11-misc/xcompmgr-1.1'

Actual Results:  
...
>>> Source unpacked.
am-wrapper: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.7 is missing or not executable.
            Please try emerging the correct version of automake.
autoreconf-2.59: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf-2.59: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf-2.59: running: aclocal  --output=aclocal.m4t
am-wrapper: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.7 is missing or not executable.
            Please try emerging the correct version of automake.
autoreconf-2.59: aclocal failed with exit status: 1


Expected Results:  
...
Emerge successful!
Auto-cleaning packages

Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 4
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups curl eds emboss
encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib
ipv6 java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses
nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline
ruby samba sdl spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev
vorbis xine xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-10-22 11:26:11 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> When emerging x11-misc/xcompmgr-1.1 it fails because it specifically wants
> aclocal-1.7

That's not an ebuild bug. Re-emerge automake-wrapper (and *all* required
automake versions) and stop unmerging them.