Bug 228685 – emerge of sylpheed-2.5.0 fails with aclocal problem

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description mjbjr 2008-06-21 08:03:29 UTC]

# emerge sylpheed
Calculating dependencies... done!
>>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0 to /
 * sylpheed-2.5.0.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...                                                                 [ ok ]
 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                                                                      [ ok ]
 * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                                                                     [ ok ]
 * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                                                                    [ ok ]
 * checking sylpheed-2.5.0.tar.bz2 ;-) ...                                                                                [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking sylpheed-2.5.0.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/work
 * Applying sylpheed-2.1-shared-mime-info.diff ...                                                                        [ ok ]
 * Applying sylpheed-2.2-replace-aspell-with-enchant.diff ...                                                             [ ok ]
 * Applying sylpheed-2.4-firefox.diff ...                                                                                 [ ok ]
 * Automake used for the package (1.4-p6) differs from
 * the installed version (1.10.1).
 * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/work/sylpheed-2.5.0' ...
 * Running aclocal -I m4 -I ac ...                                                                                        [ !! ]

 * Failed Running aclocal !
 * 
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
 * 
 *   /var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/temp/aclocal-20127.out

 * 
 * ERROR: mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_unpack
 *             environment, line 2618:  Called eautomake
 *             environment, line  864:  Called eautoreconf
 *             environment, line  887:  Called eaclocal
 *             environment, line  826:  Called autotools_run_tool 'aclocal' '-I' 'm4' '-I' 'ac'
 *             environment, line  377:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           die "Failed Running $1 !";
 *  The die message:
 *   Failed Running aclocal !
 * 
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/temp/environment'.
 * 

 * Messages for package mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0:

 * Failed Running aclocal !
 * 
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
 * 
 *   /var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/temp/aclocal-20127.out
 * 
 * ERROR: mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_unpack
 *             environment, line 2618:  Called eautomake
 *             environment, line  864:  Called eautoreconf
 *             environment, line  887:  Called eaclocal
 *             environment, line  826:  Called autotools_run_tool 'aclocal' '-I' 'm4' '-I' 'ac'
 *             environment, line  377:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           die "Failed Running $1 !";
 *  The die message:
 *   Failed Running aclocal !
 * 
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/temp/environment'.
 * 


the contents of

'/var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/temp/aclocal-20127.out' is

***** aclocal *****
***** aclocal -I m4 -I ac

aclocal-1.10: couldn't open directory `m4': No such file or directory


the contents of

'/var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/temp/build.log' is

$ cat /var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/temp/build.log
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking sylpheed-2.5.0.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/work
 * Applying sylpheed-2.1-shared-mime-info.diff ...                               [ ok ]
 * Applying sylpheed-2.2-replace-aspell-with-enchant.diff ...                    [ ok ]
 * Applying sylpheed-2.4-firefox.diff ...                                        [ ok ]
 * Automake used for the package (1.4-p6) differs from
 * the installed version (1.10.1).
 * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/work/sylpheed-2.5.0' ...
 * Running aclocal -I m4 -I ac ...                                               [ !! ]

 * Failed Running aclocal !
 * 
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
 * 
 *   /var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/temp/aclocal-23417.out

 * 
 * ERROR: mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_unpack
 *             environment, line 2618:  Called eautomake
 *             environment, line  864:  Called eautoreconf
 *             environment, line  887:  Called eaclocal
 *             environment, line  826:  Called autotools_run_tool 'aclocal' '-I' 'm4' '-I' 'ac'
 *             environment, line  377:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           die "Failed Running $1 !";
 *  The die message:
 *   Failed Running aclocal !
 * 
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/mail-client/sylpheed-2.5.0/temp/environment'.
 * 



I emerged new versions of:
    'm4' (sys-devel/m4-1.4.11)
    'automake'  (sys-devel/automake-1.10.1-r1
    
but the same error occurred.

[Comment 1 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2008-06-21 10:12:38 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 219341 ***