Bug 609302

Summary:	sys-devel/m4-1.4.17 fails install phase if perl not installed.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	lperkins
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description lperkins 2017-02-13 21:35:05 UTC

If emerging m4 without perl installed on the system, all goes well until the install phase, when you get: 

/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/m4-1.4.17/work/m4-1.4.17/build-aux/missing: /usr/bin/makeinfo: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory


It would appear that m4 needs to have perl as a build dependency, or its build process needs to be adjusted not to use it.

Comment 1 Brian Evans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-02-13 21:45:16 UTC

(In reply to lperkins from comment #0)
> If emerging m4 without perl installed on the system, all goes well until the
> install phase, when you get: 
> 
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/m4-1.4.17/work/m4-1.4.17/build-aux/missing:
> /usr/bin/makeinfo: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

/usr/bin/makeinfo comes from sys-apps/texinfo.  So your removal of perl, which is not a good thing to do with autotools, broke texinfo which does have a dependency on perl.