Bug 198442 – mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.9 fails at autoconf with "undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion"

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Taavi Ilves 2007-11-08 10:11:32 UTC]

mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.9 fails at autoconf. included logs as attachments. 

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3.16 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:00:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.2-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r6
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.22-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles"
LANG="POSIX"
LC_ALL="POSIX"
LINGUAS="en et"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl alsa apache2 asf avahi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr cli cpus cracklib crypt cups dbus doomsday dri dvd dvdr dvdread fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gimp gimpprint gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal iconv imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack jpeg kde kdeenablefinal ldap lm_sensors mad midi mmx motroska mp3 msn mudflap musepack musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp oracle pam pcre pdf perl png posix pppd python readline reflection samba scanner session slang spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd tetex theora truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xine xinerama xorg xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en et" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nvidia nv"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge mozilla-firefox

[Comment 1 Taavi Ilves 2007-11-08 10:12:37 UTC]

Created attachment 135479 [details]
autoconf-27126.out

Include in your bugreport the contents of:
/var/tmp/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.9/temp/autoconf-27126.out

[Comment 2 Taavi Ilves 2007-11-08 10:13:10 UTC]

Created attachment 135480 [details]
emerge.log

A complete build log

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-11-08 10:28:39 UTC]

<snip>
ac-wrapper: warning: invalid WANT_AUTOCONF '2.1'; ignoring.
build/autoconf/altoptions.m4:156: error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion
build/autoconf/altoptions.m4:156: the top level
autom4te-2.61: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
</snip>

emerge -pv sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper please.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-11-08 10:30:03 UTC]

NEEDINFO.

[Comment 5 Taavi Ilves 2007-11-08 10:42:06 UTC]

[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-4-r3  0 kB

I re-emerged it for testing and tried again -- same result as before.(In reply to comment #3)
> <snip>
> ac-wrapper: warning: invalid WANT_AUTOCONF '2.1'; ignoring.
> build/autoconf/altoptions.m4:156: error: m4_defn: undefined macro:
> _m4_divert_diversion
> build/autoconf/altoptions.m4:156: the top level
> autom4te-2.61: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> </snip>
> 
> emerge -pv sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper please.
> 
[ebuild   R   ] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-4-r3  0 kB

I re-emerged it for testing and tried again -- same result as before.

[Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-11-08 10:52:36 UTC]

> ac-wrapper: warning: invalid WANT_AUTOCONF '2.1'; ignoring.

Well, this is clearly what's causing the whole issue, and do idea why does ac-wrapper think that WANT_AUTOCONF="2.1" is invalid.

[Comment 7 Taavi Ilves 2007-11-08 12:20:14 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> > ac-wrapper: warning: invalid WANT_AUTOCONF '2.1'; ignoring.
> 
> Well, this is clearly what's causing the whole issue, and do idea why does
> ac-wrapper think that WANT_AUTOCONF="2.1" is invalid.
> 

Sorry for disturbing. I re-emerged both versions of autoconf (2.61, 2.13) and now it goes fine. Thank you for your attention. 

[Comment 8 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-11-08 12:21:28 UTC]

Hrrm... lets close this then.