mpeg4ip doesn't emerge without alsa-lib even when USE="-alsa" is set. Error message in /var/tmp/portage/media-video/mpeg4ip-1.5.0.1-r2/temp/autoconf-459.out ***** autoconf ***** configure.in:413: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_ALSA If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. Seems similar to #177328 and #171942. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. disable alsa in make.conf 2. emerge -uDN world 3. emerge -C alsa-lib alsa-headers 4. emerge mpeg4ip Actual Results: Failure during eautoreconf. Expected Results: Failure after eautoreconf or not at all.
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damnit... this is annoying... I have to think of something...
mpeg4ip doesn't ship some of the m4 files containing the macros it uses. This is a common problem I have documented before in the autofailure doc[1], the solution is to put the missing .m4 files in a tarball and put the extracted directory in AT_M4DIR. What you need is alsa.m4 to fix this bug, but it also misses gtk2's m4 file. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/autofailure.xml
indeed ...
arg, that makes me feel like making the deps not optional... (or p.masking mpeg4ip.. upstream has resigned)
Problem still exists.
Ok, I found somewhere in the internet an alsa.m4 and put it like described into /usr/share/aclocal. Now configure and make were successful. If it's too much work to edit the ebuild, then maybe it would a good idea to provide alsa.m4 with the autoconf or any other responsible package.
Sorry for the 3rd posting in one day. But now I did a emerge --sync. And now mpeg4ip wants to reinstall with depencies of alsa-headers and alsa-libs. So it seems that I have to edit the ebuild and put it into my local overlay to avoid installing that alsa-stuff. Possible solutions for that problem could be: 1. Like written above: Provide alsa.m4 with autoconf package 2. Provide alsa.m4 with the mpeg4ip package 3. Write a warning message into the ebuild that shows up, when the user has not set the alsa useflag. But please remove that not needed alsa-depency. Thx a lot.
I'm giving up on this package, it is no longer maintained upstream. I will package.mask it in a couple days if no one wants to take it over.
Although the website states that mpeg4ip-1.6.1 tarballs are corrupt, I pulled that version from sourceforge's CVS and placed it on a webserver where I'm the admin of: http://www.fn-clan.de/downloads/gentoo/ I used these tarballs since I've created them and had only one package that failed to compile against this version (but I don't remember which one). I am unable to maintain this package myself but if anyone else volunteers, feel free to use the tarballs of that webserver.
(In reply to comment #9) > I'm giving up on this package, it is no longer maintained upstream. I will > package.mask it in a couple days if no one wants to take it over. > On their website they write: ??? as of 9/28/07, development is stopped, and we are not taking any more contributions. Ok, the only thing I used from that package is the mp4creator to create an mpeg4-container. Is there an alternative solution? Maybe version 1.6.1 doesn't have these issues. Olivier: Don't give up. :) Life isn't easy these days.
