Sometimes, when setting up a new stage3 and emerging =sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12, emerge fails with "Failed running autoconf !" Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up new stage3 2. emerge =sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12 3. Sometimes the above fails Actual Results: Failed Running autoconf ! Expected Results: Successful compilation * Failed Running autoconf ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12/temp/autoconf.out * ERROR: sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12::gentoo failed (unpack phase): * Failed Running autoconf ! * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 93: Called src_unpack * environment, line 4072: Called eautoreconf * environment, line 1198: Called eautoconf * environment, line 1105: Called autotools_run_tool '--at-m4flags' 'autoconf' * environment, line 736: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "Failed Running $1 !"; * * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12::gentoo'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12::gentoo'`. * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12/temp/environment'. * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12/work/grub-0.97' * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12/work/grub-0.97' Contents of /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12/temp/autoconf.out: ***** autoconf ***** ***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12/work/grub-0.97 ***** autoconf configure.ac:63: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_AS If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. emerge --info: Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.13.0-35-generic-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i3-4130_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 8114156 total, 141276 free KiB Swap: 8327164 total, 8225188 free Timestamp of tree: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.23.2 p1.0) 2.23.2 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-lang/python: 2.7.7, 3.3.5-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.13.11-r2::x-portage (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.19-r1 Repositories: gentoo x-portage ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=x86-64 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=x86-64 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.llarian.net/ ftp://ftp.wh8.tu-dresden.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri fortran gdbm iconv ipv6 minimal mmx modules multilib ncurses nptl openmp pam pcre python readline session sse sse2 ssl tcpd unicode zlib" ABI_X86="64" 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" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
In case it's important, I have =sys-devel/autoconf-2.69 installed.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 418287 ***
