# emerge net-im/sim Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Emerging (1 of 1) net-im/sim-0.9.4_pre060504 to / >>> checking ebuild checksums ;-) >>> checking auxfile checksums ;-) >>> checking miscfile checksums ;-) >>> checking sim-060504.tar.bz2 ;-) * Building svn version exported on 060504. >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking sim-060504.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/sim-0.9.4_pre060504/work *** YOU'RE USING autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60. *** SIM requires autoconf 2.53 or newer make: *** [cvs] Error 1 !!! ERROR: net-im/sim-0.9.4_pre060504 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1545: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 711: Called src_unpack sim-0.9.4_pre060504.ebuild, line 79: Called die !!! Failed to create Makefiles... !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
Almost forgot: # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1_pre1-r5 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/amd64-vanilla, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r10 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r10 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.0.0_rc1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.16 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed,-z,now" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/andrija" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi akode alsa amr aotuv apm arts asf async audiofile avi bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cg cli cpudetection crypt css cups curl dbus directfb dlz dmi dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds effects emboss encode expat exscalibar fame fbcon fbdev ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gif glitz gmail gphoto2 gpm gs gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kipi libcaca lirc lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod mjpeg mng mouse mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer musepack musicbrainz ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal openexr opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png postgres ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection rle ruby samba scanner sdl session slang slp sndfile speex spell spl ssl subtitles svg svgz tcpd theora threads threadsonly tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd visualization vorbis wmf xine xml xorg xpm xrandr xv xvid zlib zvbi elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_joystick input_devices_vmmouse input_devices_void kernel_linux lirc_devices_all userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_vmware video_cards_v4l" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Now, this seems awkward to me: sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 I'm missing 2.5x. Turns out, that autoconf-2.60 slots itself as 2.5 and that caused trouble. After manually emerging 2.59-r7 everything works. Shouldn't autoconf-2.60 have SLOT="${PV:0:3}" like the older versions instead of SLOT="2.5"?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138571 ***
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