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Bug 467606

Summary: =app-text/dvipdfmx-20110311 fails with automake-1.13 - error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) <axs>
Component: [OLD] UnspecifiedAssignee: TeX project <tex>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Bug Blocks: 451744    

Description Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-04-27 21:08:20 UTC
# cat /var/tmp/portage/app-text/dvipdfmx-20110311/temp/aclocal.out
***** aclocal *****
***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/app-text/dvipdfmx-20110311/work/dvipdfmx-20110311
***** aclocal -I m4

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configure.in:4: error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete.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.in: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

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 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2014-12-12 10:35:37 UTC
  27 Apr 2013; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> dvipdfmx-20110311.ebuild:
  Automake 1.13 fix