Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: failing to emerge update

[Mansour Al Akeel]

Thank you all. It was a matter of reinstalling m4. Things are working
fine and everything is updated. 



On Thu Oct 15,2009 01:19 am, Duncan wrote:
> Mansour Al Akeel posted on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:49:32 -0300 as excerpted:
>
> > Ok, I think I did something rally bad. I am unable to install emacs.
> > Here's the output :
> > ============================================================
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies   ... done!
> > [ebuild  N    ] net-libs/liblockfile-1.06-r2  0 kB
> > [ebuild  N    ] app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1.2
> >  USE="X -emacs22icons" 0 kB
> > [ebuild  N    ] app-editors/emacs-23.1  USE="X alsa dbus gif gpm gtk
> >  jpeg png svg tiff xpm -Xaw3d -gzip-el -hesiod -kerberos -m17n-lib
> >  -motif -sound -source -toolkit-scroll-bars -xft" 30,648 kB
> > [ebuild  N    ] virtual/emacs-23  0 kB
> >
> > Total: 4 packages (4 new), Size of downloads: 30,648 kB
>
> >>>> Emerging (1 of 4) net-libs/liblockfile-1.06-r2
>
> >  * Running eautoreconf in
> >  '/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/liblockfile-1.06-r2/work/liblockfile-1.06'
> >  ...
> >  * Running aclocal ...
> >   [ !! ]
> >
> >  * Failed Running aclocal !
> >  *
> >  * Include in your bugreport the contents of: *
> >  *   /var/tmp/portage/net-libs/liblockfile-1.06-r2/temp/aclocal.out
>
> > Any idea ?
>
> FWIW, it doesn't seem /that/ bad.  It just failed one step.  We don't
> know why, but the answer or at least a good hint should be in that
> aclocal.out file.  What does it say?
>
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