Bug 78817 – m4: lack of changeword makes autotools cry

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2005-01-20 07:37:43 UTC]

I am getting this error when emerging libtool, any ideas:

 * Applying libtool-1.5-filter-host-tags.patch ...                                                                                   [ ok ]
 * Applying libtool-1.5.10-locking.patch ...                                                                                         [ ok ]
 * Generating ltmain.sh ...                                                                                                          [ ok ]
 * Running autotools in '.' ...
/usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4:5: warning: underquoted definition of PKG_CHECK_MODULES
  run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
  or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
/usr/share/aclocal/libmcrypt.m4:17: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_LIBMCRYPT
/usr/share/aclocal/glib.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GLIB
NONE:0: /usr/bin/m4: `changeword' from frozen file not found in builtin table!
autom4te-2.59: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.9: autom4te failed with exit status: 1

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




Portage 2.0.51-r14 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-
r0, 2.6.10-mm2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-mm2 i686 Pentium III (Katmai)
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jan 10 2005, 10:55:56)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.3
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mmmx -msse -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share
/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mmmx -msse -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo 
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://csociety-
ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ 
rsync://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ 
ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/ 
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo 
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ 
http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ 
rsync://rsync.gentoo.skynet.be/gentoo/ 
http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ 
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ 
rsync://ftp.belnet.be/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 acpi apache2 apm bitmap-fonts chroot crypt curl dba dhcp f77 fam font-
server foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif hardened imap imlib innodb ipv6 java 
jpeg libg++ libwww maildir md5sum mmx mng mppe-mppc mysql ncurses nls nptl 
nptlonly pam pam-mysql pdflib perl php pic pie png posix python readline samba 
session simplexml snmp sse ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales 
vhosts xml xml2 zlib"
Unset:  LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2005-01-20 08:18:29 UTC]

That title makes more sence, mysql also have problems compiling.
is there anything I should add to the ebuilds?

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2005-01-20 15:23:52 UTC]

upgrade to m4-1.4.2-r1

[Comment 3 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2005-01-20 15:25:15 UTC]

thanks, that works fine :)