From a svn build of rhythmbox: /usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh checking for autoconf >= 2.53... testing autoconf2.50... not found. testing autoconf... found 2.61 checking for automake >= 1.7... testing automake-1.10... found 1.10.1 checking for libtool >= 1.4.3... testing libtoolize... found 1.5.26 checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0... testing glib-gettextize... found 2.16.2 checking for intltool >= 0.25... testing intltoolize... found 0.37.1 checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0... testing pkg-config... found 0.23 checking for gtk-doc >= 1.0... testing gtkdocize... found 1.10 checking for gnome-doc-utils >= 0.4.2... testing gnome-doc-prepare... found 0.12.2 checking for gnome-common >= 2.3.0... testing gnome-doc-common... found 2.20.0 Checking for required M4 macros... gtk-doc.m4 not found ***Error***: some autoconf macros required to build rhythmbox were not found in your aclocal path, or some forbidden macros were found. Perhaps you need to adjust your ACLOCAL_FLAGS? From /usr/portage/dev-util/gtk-doc-am/gtk-doc-am-1.10.ebuild: src_compile() { mv gtk-doc.m4 gtk-doc-${PV}.m4 } I guess I understand the reasoning behind moving gtk-doc.m4 to a non-colliding name, but there's lots of packages that refer to it my name only, and as it's not SLOTted there's no real prospect of collision. Perhaps a symlink would work OK?
this has been discussed on irc already but I can't remember the outcome.
The outcome was that Daniel didn't see a reason to keep the same name and that I believed it must be the same name, and that I can change it to retain name if I want to, but I haven't had time (and frankly forgot about it till now in addition). So, anyone please feel free to get to it before me and fix it
fixed with gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1
