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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