Bug 72795 – GRub 0.95 won't install due to autotool errors

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description André Terpstra 2004-11-29 00:06:29 UTC]

Having installed GRUB 0.94 fine and using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86", I want to upgared to the latest GRUB version. However this is not possible because the emerge failes to complete. The error is something like "The C compiler cannot create output files..." It refers to a file config.log which I will attach.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge -u world
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
emerge failed

Expected Results:  
correct emerge

[Comment 1 André Terpstra 2004-11-29 00:07:44 UTC]

Created attachment 44914 [details]
Temporary file created during emerge

[Comment 2 Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) 2004-11-29 01:07:21 UTC]

See also bug #70111. It's the current fix for that that's broken.

[Comment 3 André Terpstra 2004-12-01 23:34:02 UTC]

Created attachment 45119 [details]
emerge output - second attempt

[Comment 4 André Terpstra 2004-12-01 23:36:00 UTC]

Yesterday I give it another try. The world update started with several versions of automake:

1101931346: Started emerge on: Dec 01, 2004 21:02:26
1101931346:  *** emerge --fetchonly --update --verbose world
1101931347:  >>> emerge (1 of 8) sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1 to /
1101931347:  >>> emerge (2 of 8) sys-devel/automake-1.9.3 to /
1101931347:  >>> emerge (3 of 8) sys-devel/automake-1.5 to /
1101931347:  >>> emerge (4 of 8) sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r2 to /
1101931347:  >>> emerge (5 of 8) sys-devel/automake-1.6.3 to /
1101931347:  >>> emerge (6 of 8) sys-devel/automake-1.7.9 to /
1101931347:  >>> emerge (7 of 8) sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6 to /
1101931347:  >>> emerge (8 of 8) sys-boot/grub-0.95.20040823 to /


and now the emerge error message points to automake, see new attachment.

[Comment 5 Peter Levine 2004-12-02 00:48:38 UTC]

I have the same problem

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2005-03-10 20:36:44 UTC]

0.96 fixes this