Bug 715164 – =net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1: Cannot find the latest automake! Tried 1.16.1:1.16 1.15.1:1.15

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Bernd 2020-03-28 14:05:06 UTC]

Created attachment 626558 [details]
emerge-info-iptables.txt

While updating my test chroot, net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1 fails with this error:

 * Package:    net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1
 * Repository: gentoo-git
 * Maintainer: [e-mail]
 * USE:        abi_x86_64 amd64 elibc_glibc ipv6 kernel_linux split-usr userland_GNU
 * FEATURES:   network-sandbox preserve-libs sandbox userpriv usersandbox
 * Applying iptables-1.8.4-no-symlinks.patch ...
 [ ok ]
 * Applying iptables-1.8.2-link.patch ...
patching file iptables/Makefile.am
Hunk #1 succeeded at 23 with fuzz 2 (offset -3 lines).
 [ ok ]
 * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1/work/iptables-1.8.4' ...
 * ERROR: net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1::gentoo-git failed (prepare phase):
 *   Cannot find the latest automake! Tried 1.16.1:1.16 1.15.1:1.15
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *     ebuild.sh, line  125:  Called src_prepare
 *   environment, line 2030:  Called eautoreconf
 *   environment, line 1095:  Called _elibtoolize '--auto-ltdl' '--install' '--copy' '--force'
 *   environment, line  498:  Called autotools_run_tool 'libtoolize' '--install' '--copy' '--force' '--automake'
 *   environment, line  807:  Called autotools_env_setup
 *   environment, line  760:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           [[ ${WANT_AUTOMAKE} == "latest" ]] && die "Cannot find the latest automake! Tried ${_LATEST_AUTOMAKE[*]}";
 * 
 * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1::gentoo-git'`,
 * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1::gentoo-git'`.
 * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/build/net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1:20200328-114901.log'.
 * For convenience, a symlink to the build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1/temp/environment'.
 * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1/work/iptables-1.8.4'
 * S: '/var/tmp/portage/net-firewall/iptables-1.8.4-r1/work/iptables-1.8.4'


After finishing the update, during which automake-1.16.2 has been installed, I retried and the build finished.

[Comment 1 William Throwe 2020-08-20 23:47:04 UTC]

This is presumably caused by calling eautoreconf unconditionally but setting

> # Force users doing their own patches to install their own tools
> AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND=no

The eautoreconf call used to be conditional on user patches being applied.

[Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow 2020-08-21 01:00:40 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ad1c259756034612a7d4e5ae1bdcecae3868f36a

commit ad1c259756034612a7d4e5ae1bdcecae3868f36a
Author:     Patrick McLean <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2020-08-21 01:00:17 +0000
Commit:     Patrick McLean <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2020-08-21 01:00:17 +0000

    net-firewall/iptables: Drop AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND=no (bug #715164)
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715164
    Copyright: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.4, Repoman-3.0.1
    Signed-off-by: Patrick McLean <[e-mail]>

 net-firewall/iptables/iptables-1.8.4-r2.ebuild | 3 ---
 net-firewall/iptables/iptables-1.8.5.ebuild    | 3 ---
 2 files changed, 6 deletions(-)