User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060804 Firefox/1.5.0.5 Build Identifier: libwww depends on automake-1.4, which is not marked as dependency of libwww Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -C =sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6 2.emerge -v =net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r4 3. gojira ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16.26-xen-dom0-2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16.26-xen-dom0-2 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.13GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:20:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] 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: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" CHOST="i686-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 /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.localhost.net.ar/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" LINGUAS="" 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/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware" SYNC="rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl acpi alsa arts bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt cups dbus dedicated dlloader dri dvd dvdr elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gstreamer hal icc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas kerberos kernel_linux ldap libg++ logrotate mad mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pam_console pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sasl sdl session speex spell spl sse ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa video_cards_via vorbis win32codecs xcomposite xml xorg xv zeroconf zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I can confirm this. Without automake-1.4_p6 compilation of libwww-5.4.0-r4 fails with: * Failed Running aclocal ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/libwww-5.4.0-r6/temp/aclocal-25276.out !!! ERROR: net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r6 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 708: Called src_unpack libwww-5.4.0-r6.ebuild, line 53: Called eautoreconf autotools.eclass, line 79: Called eaclocal autotools.eclass, line 116: Called autotools_run_tool 'aclocal' autotools.eclass, line 212: Called die !!! Failed Running aclocal ! !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
same here
Fixed by forcing latest version of autotools for all ebuilds.