I tried to install it, and it failed becuase of the above. Even though automake 1.10 was masked.
Already depends on it; emerge --sync.
From the ebuild (/usr/portage/media-libs/smpeg/smpeg-0.4.4-r8.ebuild) : DEPEND=">=media-libs/libsdl-1.2.0 opengl? ( virtual/opengl virtual/glu ) gtk? ( =x11-libs/gtk+-1.2* ) X? ( x11-libs/libXext x11-libs/libXi x11-libs/libX11 )" Doesn't look like it has to me.
<snip> WANT_AUTOCONF="latest" WANT_AUTOMAKE="latest" inherit eutils toolchain-funcs autotools </snip> Do some research on how it works, thanks.
mboxdb ~ # equery list automake [ Searching for package 'automake' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.9-r1 (1.7) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r3 (1.8) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r2 (1.9) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.5 (1.5) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1-r1 (0) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6 (1.4) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.6.3 (1.6) mboxdb ~ # emerge -pv =smpeg-0.4.4-r8 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] media-libs/audiofile-0.2.6-r1 365 kB [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-1.0.2 USE="-bash-completion -doc" 143 kB [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-esd-20060719 1 kB [ebuild N ] media-sound/esound-0.2.36-r2 USE="ipv6 -alsa -debug -tcpd" 361 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/libsdl-1.2.11 USE="esd -X -aalib -alsa -arts -dga -directfb -fbcon -ggi -libcaca -nas -noaudio -noflagstrip -nojoystick -novideo -opengl -oss -svga -xinerama -xv" 2,730 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/smpeg-0.4.4-r8 USE="-X -debug -gtk -mmx -opengl" 311 kB Total size of downloads: 3,914 kB mboxdb ~ # Doesn't WANT_AUTOMAKE="latest" just mean use the latest AUTOMAKE that's installed? Surely, if it needs a SPECIFIC version of a package, that's what a dependancy is for.
Go read the autotools.eclass, thanks. Don't reopen this bug.
Closed, it works just fine.