Bug 219263 – xfce-extra/xfce4-eyes-4.4.0: Incompatible with autconf 2.62

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexander Skwar 2008-04-25 11:49:13 UTC]

Guess what... :)
Another bug which is like bug #219124.

>>> Emerging (3 of 4) xfce-extra/xfce4-eyes-4.4.0 to /
Adjusting permissions recursively: '/Gentoo/Portage/tree/distfiles/'
Adjusting permissions recursively: '/Gentoo/Portage/tree/distfiles/.locks'
 * xfce4-eyes-plugin-4.4.0.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...                                                                [ ok ]
 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                                                                              [ ok ]
 * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                                                                             [ ok ]
 * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                                                                            [ ok ]
 * checking xfce4-eyes-plugin-4.4.0.tar.bz2 ;-) ...                                                                               [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking xfce4-eyes-plugin-4.4.0.tar.bz2 to /Gentoo/Portage/build/portage/xfce-extra/xfce4-eyes-4.4.0/work
 * Running autoconf ...                                                                                                           [ !! ]

 * Failed Running autoconf !
 * 
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
 * 
 *   /Gentoo/Portage/build/portage/xfce-extra/xfce4-eyes-4.4.0/temp/autoconf-11021.out

 * 
 * ERROR: xfce-extra/xfce4-eyes-4.4.0 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_unpack
 *             environment, line 2721:  Called eautoconf
 *             environment, line  834:  Called autotools_run_tool 'autoconf'
 *             environment, line  379:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           die "Failed Running $1 !";
 *  The die message:
 *   Failed Running autoconf !

winnb000488 xfce4-xkb # cat /Gentoo/Portage/build/portage/xfce-extra/xfce4-eyes-4.4.0/temp/autoconf-11021.out
***** autoconf *****
***** autoconf

aclocal.m4:14: error: this file was generated for autoconf 2.61.
You have another version of autoconf.  If you want to use that,
you should regenerate the build system entirely.
aclocal.m4:14: the top level
autom4te-2.62: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63

patch upcoming.

[Comment 1 Alexander Skwar 2008-04-25 11:53:22 UTC]

Created attachment 150941 [details, diff]
xfce4-eyes-4.4.0_autoconf-2.62.patch

Patch removing the check.

[Comment 2 Alexander Skwar 2008-04-25 11:53:23 UTC]

Created attachment 150942 [details]
xfce4-eyes-4.4.0.ebuild

ebuild making use of the patch.

[Comment 3 Alexander Skwar 2008-04-25 11:53:25 UTC]

Created attachment 150943 [details, diff]
xfce4-eyes-4.4.0.ebuild_autoconf-2.62.patch

Patch against ebuild.

[Comment 4 Alexander Skwar 2008-04-25 11:54:58 UTC]

Incompatible with autconf 2.62 (forgot to mention the version number in the Summary field)

[Comment 5 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2008-04-25 15:42:01 UTC]

Thanks for reporting (but I used a different approach (no patching))