there is old code (dates back to Aug 2001) in prepall for aclocal handling which is no longer relevant due to the fact that we patch `aclocal` now
Created attachment 50867 [details, diff] prepall-no-aclocal.patch
Tested/verified this against the tree, also are people in agreement over this? I'm not to familiar with the various aclocal hacks throughout portage, hence the attempt to punt verification it can be chucked to you...
verified against multiple versions of about 600 different packages, the 'system' packages included and azarah gave his blessing ;)
Up for notifying -dev then? Assuming no general complaints (honestly not expecting any, just doing the motions), sure.
The only reason I can see for it, is it might move aclocal in /opt, etc to /usr/share/aclocal - and I never encountered any there. Not sure why it was there in the first place.
Fixed on or before 2.0.51.22-r1
Looking through the batch of bugs, I'm not sure that some of these are actually fixed in stable. Others, the requirements have possibly changed after the initial fix was committed. If you think this bug has been closed incorrectly, please reopen or ask that it be reopened.