Bug 467540

Summary:	=app-admin/gnome-system-tools-2.32.0-r3 fails with automake-1.13 - error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) <axs>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	451744

Description Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-04-27 20:03:11 UTC

# cat /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/gnome-system-tools-2.32.0-r3/temp/aclocal.out
***** aclocal *****
***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/gnome-system-tools-2.32.0-r3/work/gnome-system-tools-2.32.0
***** aclocal

aclocal-1.13: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
/usr/share/aclocal/zthread.m4:34: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_ZTHREAD
/usr/share/aclocal/zthread.m4:34:   run info Automake 'Extending aclocal'
/usr/share/aclocal/zthread.m4:34:   or see http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
configure.in:10: error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete.
    You should use the 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' macro instead.
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/obsolete-err.m4:12: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from...
configure.in:10: the top level
autom4te-2.69: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.13: error: echo failed with exit status: 1

Please note that although this package is stable and automake-1.13 is ~arch,
this is still a priority fix because ~arch users are immediately affected.

Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-09-08 16:32:06 UTC

+  08 Sep 2013; Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>
+  gnome-system-tools-2.32.0-r3.ebuild:
+  Fix automake-1.13 failure with obsolete macro, bug #467540.
+

Even though automake-1.13 behavior was reverted, I fixed this so it does not come back in a later automake release. Thanks for reporting.