Bug 37683

Summary:	KDELIBS 3.1.4 will not work with your current autoconf version
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Robert Fantini <rob>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Robert Fantini 2004-01-09 05:46:48 UTC

emerge kdelibs results in:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) kdelibs-3.1.4.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
 *
 * KDELIBS 3.1.4 will not work with your current autoconf version
 * You should upgrade to 2.57a or 2.58
 
!!! ERROR: kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4 failed.
!!! Function src_unpack, Line 52, Exitcode 0
!!! (no error message)

Info from kdelibs' Chang# ChangeLog for kde-base/kdelibs
# Copyright 2002-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL v2
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/kde-base/kdelibs/ChangeLog,v 1.109 2004/01/08 15:30:13 caleb Ex
p $

  08 Jan 2004; Caleb Tennis <caleb@gentoo.org> kdelibs-3.1.4.ebuild:
  Hopefully this will stop so many bugs from being reported
  until autoconf becomes stable.

SO I guess this is a known problem.
I did try searching for this bug before posting this bug report.


 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge sync
2.emerge kdelibs
3. OR just step 2.

Actual Results:  
kdelibs would not compile.


# ChangeLog for kde-base/kdelibs
# Copyright 2002-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL v2
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/kde-base/kdelibs/ChangeLog,v 1.109 
2004/01/08 15:30:13 caleb Ex
p $

  08 Jan 2004; Caleb Tennis <caleb@gentoo.org> kdelibs-3.1.4.ebuild:
  Hopefully this will stop so many bugs from being reported
  until autoconf becomes stable.

Comment 1 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-09 06:10:28 UTC

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37328
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122430


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37328 ***

Comment 2 Robert Fantini 2004-01-09 06:23:01 UTC

this was fixed with
merge /usr/portage/sys-devel/autoconf/autoconf-2.58.ebuild

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=120849&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=