Bug 40332

Summary:	emerging coreutils-5.0.91-r4 yields an error in autoconf
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Rich <RCEBrain>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	perl
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Rich 2004-02-03 17:34:12 UTC

Emerge coreutils breaks on my system, yielding the error message listed below.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS as "X86", emerge coreutils.
2. ?
3. Error!
But seriously, I have no idea of the steps leading up to coreutils' behavior.
Actual Results:  
 

Expected Results:  
 

I recently attempted an emerge sync, then world, and found a coreutils update. So, I 
attempted to emerge coreutils. It would run through the configure as usual, and 
would display this, to my chagrin: 
 
bash-2.05b# emerge coreutils 
(various ordinary emerge output data...) 
config.status: executing depfiles commands 
config.status: executing default-1 commands 
config.status: creating po/POTFILES 
config.status: creating po/Makefile 
cd . 
&& /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.0.91-r4/work/coreutils-5.0.91/config/missing 
--run autoheader 
Can't locate object method "path" via package "Request" 
at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/C4che.pm line 69, <GEN1> line 112. 
autoheader-2.58: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1 
make: *** [config.hin] Error 1 
 
I have perl 5.8.0-r12, gcc 3.2.3-r3, m4 1.4.-r1, and autoconf 2.58, all from ebuilds in 
the standard portage tree. 
My CFLAGS are: "-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" 
My kernel is 2.4.20. 
Am I doing something obviously wrong, or have I found a bug?

Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-04 23:20:43 UTC

I honestly do not know. rac, thoughts?

Comment 2 Rich 2004-02-06 17:07:44 UTC

...oops. I found my error. Awhile back I installed an autoconf set from a tarball for a specific program, and a friend of mine kindly pointed out that it was using that one over the emerged version.

I apologize for the waste of time. ^_^