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Bug 421219 - sys-devel/automake-wrapper has unexpected behaviour
Summary: sys-devel/automake-wrapper has unexpected behaviour
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 417745
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2012-06-15 10:33 UTC by Arun Raghavan (RETIRED)
Modified: 2012-06-15 15:08 UTC (History)
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Description Arun Raghavan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-06-15 10:33:21 UTC 
sys-devel/automake-wrapper makes autoreconf and related tools forcibly try to reuse the version of aclocal (and other tools?) that was used an existing aclocal.m4 file. This behaviour is not expected, and breaks things in annoying ways if the version required is old (I'm seeing a requirement for aclocal-.17 with a packagin I'm trying to build even though it works just fine with recent aclocal).

I propose that automake-wrapper should fallback to the latest available version of aclocal etc. if the exact version from the existing file is not found.
Comment 1 Arun Raghavan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-06-15 10:35:44 UTC 
If making this the default behaviour is a non-option, we should at least allow this to be enabled somehow (possibly an environment variable).
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2012-06-15 15:08:03 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 417745 ***