$ emerge =media-libs/fontconfig-2.3.2-r1 >>> Emerging (1 of 1) media-libs/fontconfig-2.3.2-r1 to / * fontconfig-2.3.2.tar.gz MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ] * fontconfig-2.3.2.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * fontconfig-2.3.2.tar.gz SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] * fontconfig-2.3.2.tar.gz SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * fontconfig-2.3.2.tar.gz size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking fontconfig-2.3.2.tar.gz ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking fontconfig-2.3.2.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/fontconfig-2.3.2-r1/work * Applying fontconfig-2.3.2-symbol_alias.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying fontconfig-2.3.2-pkg_config.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying fontconfig-2.3.2-docbook.patch ... [ ok ] * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/fontconfig-2.3.2-r1/work/fontconfig-2.3.2' ... * Running aclocal ... [ !! ] * Failed Running aclocal ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/fontconfig-2.3.2-r1/temp/aclocal-16512.out !!! ERROR: media-libs/fontconfig-2.3.2-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 708: Called src_unpack fontconfig-2.3.2-r1.ebuild, line 30: Called eautoreconf autotools.eclass, line 70: Called eaclocal autotools.eclass, line 107: Called autotools_run_tool 'aclocal' autotools.eclass, line 198: Called die ***** aclocal ***** am-wrapper: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.7 is missing or not executable. Please try emerging the correct version of automake.
Created attachment 97535 [details, diff] proposed patch Applying this patch allows fontconfig to compile correctly.
*** Bug 148683 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
it works with 1.9 as well, and so that is what I set WANT_AUTOMAKE to.