Bug 230353 – app-backup/amanda-2.5.2_p1-r4 - configure.in:88: error: AC_REQUIRE: circular dependency of AC_GNU_SOURCE

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description Albert W. Hopkins 2008-07-01 14:55:49 UTC]

Unable to emerge amanda 2.5.2_p1-r4 with the following error:

--
creating amandad
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-backup/amanda-2.5.2_p1-r4/work/amanda-2.5.2p1/amandad-src'
Making all in tape-src
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-backup/amanda-2.5.2_p1-r4/work/amanda-2.5.2p1/tape-src'
 cd .. && /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/app-backup/amanda-2.5.2_p1-r4/work/amanda-2.5.2p1/config/missing --run automake-1.9 --gnu  tape-src/Makefile
configure.in:88: error: AC_REQUIRE: circular dependency of AC_GNU_SOURCE
config/gnulib/extensions.m4:19: AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/specific.m4:331: AC_GNU_SOURCE is expanded from...
config/gnulib/gnulib-comp.m4:21: gl_EARLY is expanded from...
configure.in:88: the top level
autom4te-2.62: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
automake-1.9: autoconf failed with exit status: 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-backup/amanda-2.5.2_p1-r4/work/amanda-2.5.2p1/tape-src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
--

This is gcc 4.3.1 and glibc 2.8_p20080602.

[Comment 1 Albert W. Hopkins 2008-07-01 14:58:49 UTC]

Created attachment 159125 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 2 Robin Johnson 2008-07-05 03:17:07 UTC]

vapier: autoconf breakage again maybe? would appreciate if you took a look

[Comment 3 Robin Johnson 2008-08-13 21:09:03 UTC]

2.5.x is a crapshoot for ever being fixed to work with the new libtool. I blew 2 hours on it. Go and try the 2.6.x from package.mask please.