Created attachment 431846 [details] ebuild --info Compared the the previous version (1.14.16), m4-1.14.17 has an added build dependency on autoconf via the autotools eclass. If both m4 and autoconf are unmerged and pulled in for a merge, it is blocked on the circular dependency.
autotools was added for an m4 patch that required a autoreconf. https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo/commit/d2fb79b419c1da51746a75a5f55e8b10a7993673 https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo/commit/47fa8d902034cc4c84229830affc623f98e85fdf
(In reply to Lucian Poston from comment #0) > Created attachment 431846 [details] > ebuild --info > > Compared the the previous version (1.14.16), m4-1.14.17 has an added build > dependency on autoconf via the autotools eclass. If both m4 and autoconf are > unmerged and pulled in for a merge, it is blocked on the circular dependency. yeah i added that a for bug #580688 suspecting that sys-devel/m4 is part of @system, but its commented out in profiles/base/packages. i'll fix that problem in a different way, thanks for noticing.
can you please sync and try again.
(In reply to Anthony Basile from comment #3) > can you please sync and try again. Bug appears to be fixed.
(In reply to Anthony Basile from comment #2) i don't care too much about the @system status -- m4 cannot depend on autotools. the ebuild even has a comment for a long time now: # remember: cannot dep on autoconf since it needs us we might need to duplicate that above the inherit line to keep this from happening again.
(In reply to SpanKY from comment #5) > (In reply to Anthony Basile from comment #2) > > i don't care too much about the @system status -- m4 cannot depend on > autotools. the ebuild even has a comment for a long time now: > # remember: cannot dep on autoconf since it needs us > > we might need to duplicate that above the inherit line to keep this from > happening again. i tested for a circular dep by doing a catalyst run and didn't hit it. so if there's no problem during a catalyst run and m4 is in @system, why aren't we okay? i get that autotools calls m4 etc, but we have lots of packages like that in @system.
(In reply to SpanKY from comment #5) > (In reply to Anthony Basile from comment #2) > > we might need to duplicate that above the inherit line to keep this from > happening again. Instead of comments, consider programatically checking whether autoconf is in DEPEND.
