Bug 467574

Summary:	app-misc/ddccontrol-0.4.2 fails with automake-1.13 - error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete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:	Robin Johnson <robbat2>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ed, nicolas
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	451744
Attachments:	ac-config-headers.patch

Description Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-04-27 20:48:41 UTC

# cat /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ddccontrol-0.4.2-r1/temp/aclocal.out
***** aclocal *****
***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ddccontrol-0.4.2-r1/work/ddccontrol-0.4.2
***** aclocal -I m4

/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configure.ac:4: error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete.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.ac:4: the top level
autom4te-2.69: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.13: error: echo failed with exit status: 1

The following atoms were also found to be effected:
=app-misc/ddccontrol-0.4.2

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 Ed Catmur 2013-07-24 21:25:25 UTC

Created attachment 354128 [details, diff]
ac-config-headers.patch

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-07-30 15:07:57 UTC

should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report!

Commit message: Fix building with automake-1.13
http://sources.gentoo.org/app-misc/ddccontrol/ddccontrol-0.4.2-r2.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2