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From: Marshall McMullen <marshall.mcmullen@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] emerge autoconf-2.61-r1 fails
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:09:36
Message-Id: 5312556.6531193976556805.JavaMail.root@ghostwheel.zentire.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] emerge autoconf-2.61-r1 fails by Matt Michalowski
1 I'm open to any suggestions to get me past this point. I'll look into disabling the darwin7 patch from the m4 ebuild and see if that helps.
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3 Thanks very much for taking the time to help me out, I sincerely appreciate it.
4
5 --Marshall
6
7 ----- Original Message -----
8 From: "Matt Michalowski" <me@××××××××.au>
9 To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
10 Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2007 7:27:47 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
11 Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] emerge autoconf-2.61-r1 fails
12
13 Marshall McMullen wrote:
14 > *sigh* Well, I can't install m4 because it requires autoconf and
15 > automake, but I can't install autoconf and automake because they
16 > require m4. This sounds like a pretty nasty situation.... why does m4
17 > require autoconf/automake ? Any ideas or thoughts on how to get around
18 > this would be appreciated.
19 >
20 > Thanks!
21
22 I think you can configure & make m4 without requiring autotool stuff. I
23 think the prefix portage version triggers a regen (not intentionally)
24 because the m4-1.4.8-darwin7.patch touches configure.ac.
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26 So maybe you could bootstrap m4, try emerging the autotools, then
27 emerging m4. Or perhaps you could disable the m4-1.4.8-darwin7.patch
28 patch in the m4 ebuild?
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31 Matt.
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Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] emerge autoconf-2.61-r1 fails Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>