Bug 39673 – emerge -u cups failed

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Stony Yakovac 2004-01-28 09:06:29 UTC]

I did an emerge -u world and it failed when it came to cups.  Here is the screen buffer of that....

>>> Downloading
ftp://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/cups-1.1.20-source.tar.bz2
--02:22:52-- 
ftp://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/cups-1.1.20-source.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/cups-1.1.20-source.tar.bz2'
Resolving gentoo.oregonstate.edu... 128.193.0.3
Connecting to gentoo.oregonstate.edu[128.193.0.3]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/gentoo/distfiles ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR cups-1.1.20-source.tar.bz2 ... done.
Length: 3,741,510 (unauthoritative)
 
100%[================================================================================>] 3,741,510    210.26K/s    ETA 00:00
 
02:23:10 (209.86 KB/s) -
`/usr/portage/distfiles/cups-1.1.20-source.tar.bz2' saved [3741510]
 
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) cups-1.1.20-source.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking cups-1.1.20-source.tar.bz2 to
/var/tmp/portage/cups-1.1.20/work
 * Applying
disable-strip.patch...                                                                                    [ ok ]FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script
 
!!! ERROR: net-print/cups-1.1.20 failed.
!!! Function src_unpack, Line 31, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge -u cups
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
failed because autoconf

Expected Results:  
installed the updated cups

[Comment 1 aethyr 2004-01-28 14:41:12 UTC]

What does `autoconf --version` output?

Try it with `WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1 emerge -u world`

On a side note, there should be a better way to fix it, if someone wants to offer more input.

[Comment 2 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-02-04 04:39:28 UTC]

please provide the info aethyr asked for