Bug 40988 – libwww fails to compile due to autoconf problems

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description assamite 2004-02-09 11:15:54 UTC]

libwww 5.4.0-r2 fail on 2004.0 base system to compile. There seems to be version problems with autoconf/automake. The error is:
cd . && aclocal
cd . && automake --foreign --include-deps Makefile
cd . && autoconf
aclocal.m4:267: error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion
autoconf/c.m4:1180: AC_C_VOLATILE is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:267: the top level
autom4te-2.59: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
make: *** [configure] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

!!! ERROR: net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r2 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 53, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge libwww
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
configure error

Expected Results:  
compile ;-)

Portage 2.0.50 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040117-r0, 
2.6.2-gentoo)
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System uname: 2.6.2-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache sanbox sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/mirrors/gentoo 
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups dvd encode foomatic foomaticdb gdbm 
ggi gif gpm gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mozilla 
mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt 
quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tetex truetype usb 
x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-02-09 15:32:55 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40892 ***