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Bug 467616

Summary: =app-text/teckit-2.5.1 fails with automake-1.13 - error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete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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Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 451744    

Description Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-04-27 21:11:06 UTC
# cat /var/tmp/portage/app-text/teckit-2.5.1/temp/aclocal.out
***** aclocal *****
***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/app-text/teckit-2.5.1/work/TECkit_2_5_1
***** aclocal

/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configure.ac:3: error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete.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:3: 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 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev 2015-07-16 14:04:50 UTC
all ebuilds have:
    sed -e "s/AM_CONFIG_HEADER/AC_CONFIG_HEADERS/" -i configure.ac || die