Bug 66854

Summary:	sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 does not respect WANT_AUTOCONF=?.? at all
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) <usata>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	dungara_ram, lunis, schiotz, sue_cooper
Priority:	High
Version:	2004.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-09 02:35:08 UTC

After I reinstalled autoconf-2.59-r4 WANT_AUTOCONF=?.? syntax
doesn't work any more. Looking though /usr/bin/autoconf script,
it reads WANT_AUTOCONF_2_1 and WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5,
but AFAIK this syntax is deprecated. If this change is not intentional,
please go back to the previous state. sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 is 
the only autoconf available at the moment.

Comment 1 Jakob Schiotz 2004-10-09 08:51:11 UTC

Clearly, this is a pretty major problem, as it prevents installation of KDE and emacs on a new system.  The emacs ebuild apparently does not manage to force the 2.1 version of autoconf (bug 66741), and one of the prerequisites of KDE (cups, I think) fails to force 2.5.

/Jakob

Comment 2 Imad R. Faiad 2004-10-09 10:20:06 UTC

for cups, edit the ebuild, in "src_unpack()"
change:

WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5 autoconf || die
to:
WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1 autoconf || die
hth

Comment 3 Craig Bradney 2004-10-09 10:33:24 UTC

thats not a solution.. well.. for cups you can WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1 emerge cups, but theres libungif and others too.

Comment 4 Jakob Schiotz 2004-10-09 10:46:04 UTC

Sure, there are workarounds.  But is there a good reason for changing the syntax?  I guess that either autoconf should be fixed or all ebuilds should be checked (grep?) for the wrong syntax and fixed.

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-09 15:33:18 UTC

ok, this looks like a problem with cvs ... for some reason, cvs didnt take the updated version of the autoconf wrapper

i'll fix up cvs and push out -r5

Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-09 15:36:30 UTC

*** Bug 66668 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-09 15:36:34 UTC

*** Bug 66741 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-09 15:38:36 UTC

upgrade to autoconf-2.59-r5

this bug would have affected only people that emerged -r4 in the last ~5 days

Comment 9 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-10 02:27:07 UTC

*** Bug 66943 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-20 16:57:18 UTC

*** Bug 66828 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***