Bug 41852

Summary:	emerges fail with "autoheader: unrecognized option `--language=autoconf'"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andrew Watts <ahwatts>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andrew Watts 2004-02-16 20:01:43 UTC

I ran into this earlier today, emerging the berkdb component of sys-libs/pam-0.77.  I added it as an attachment to bug 41748.  I avoided that problem by setting USE=-berkdb and reemerging.  Now, I've run into the same error with sys-apps/coreutils-5.0.91-r4.  Here is an excerpt of the output with coreutils (after the autoconf 'checking for ...' lines and the 'creating xxx/Makefile' lines):

config.status: creating tests/wc/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: linking ./lib/ftw_.h to lib/ftw.h
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
/usr/bin/autoheader-2.58: unrecognized option `--language=autoconf'
Try `/usr/bin/autoheader-2.58 --help' for more information.
autoheader-2.58: /usr/bin/autoheader-2.58 failed with exit status: 1
make: *** [config.hin] Error 1

!!! ERROR: sys-apps/coreutils-5.0.91-r4 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 130, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

It appears that 'missing' is calling autoheader with an incorrect argument.  I don't know enough about the GNU autoX to figure it out.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. # emerge sys-apps/coreutils-5.0.91-r4
Actual Results:  
I got the above error message.

Expected Results:  
It should have emerged cleanly.

I've been trying to do 'emerge system', as part of a gentoo install, but I've
been blocked by these bugs.  The environment is the Gentoo 1.4 LiveCD, chrooted
into my environment.

Comment 1 Andrew Watts 2004-02-16 20:15:25 UTC

Sorry for cluttering bugzilla.  Had I 'emerge sync'ed a few hours later, I would have caught the fixed autoconf ebuild.  I guess I should also check the forums, eh?