>>> Unpacking gpsd-2.34.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/sci-geosciences/gpsd-2.34-r1/work * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/sci-geosciences/gpsd-2.34-r1/work/gpsd-2.34' ... * Running aclocal ... [ !! ] * Failed Running aclocal ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/sci-geosciences/gpsd-2.34-r1/temp/aclocal-4898.out * * ERROR: sci-geosciences/gpsd-2.34-r1 failed. # cat /var/tmp/portage/sci-geosciences/gpsd-2.34-r1/temp/aclocal-4898.out ***** aclocal ***** am-wrapper: warning: invalid WANT_AUTOMAKE 'latest'; ignoring. am-wrapper: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.9 is missing or not executable. Please try emerging the correct version of automake. :( Portage 2.1.4_rc14 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7-r1, 2.6.23-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ Timestamp of tree: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:00:08 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r5 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" 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/kde/svn/env /usr/kde/svn/share/config /usr/kde/svn/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://localhost/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gcj gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog midi mmx mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly objc openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Just drop WANT_AUTOMAKE="latest" from the ebuild...
And drop WANT_AUTOCONF as well... the whole problem is that it's defined in completely wrong place, would have to be *above* inherit autotools if needed (since you need the latest of both, the eclass already does that)
In this particular case the automake tools are trying to use version 1.9, but this doesn't seem to be installed for this user. I just ran into the same situation and of course installing automake-1.9 fixes everything (as the error message hints). It appears that although you requested the latest automake to be used, it falls back to the version used to generate the ac files? Not sure how this should be fixed though?
Jakub is right about the autotools functions; they won't be invoked unless you move them up above the "inherit" line. Can you try the updated version on this bug? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211456 Thanks...
the autotools functions aren't required at all, I've removed them from 2.37.
