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From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o>
To: gentoo-core@l.g.o, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] WANT_AUTOCONF= and WANT_AUTOMAKE= in ebuilds
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:54:55
Message-Id: 20040130164528.GA12382@cerberus.oppresses.us
1 (Crossposting to -core and -dev to make sure everyone sees this; this is
2 fairly important.)
3
4 A lot of ebuilds are using the new WANT_AUTO{CONF,MAKE}= syntax to
5 select a desired version of autoconf (as opposed to the deprecated
6 WANT_AUTO{CONF,MAKE}_1_?=1 syntax). For autoconf, these ebuilds must
7 have a DEPEND for >=sys-devel/autoconf-2.58. For automake, they must
8 have a DEPEND for >=sys-devel/automake-1.7.2. Older versions do not
9 support the old-style syntax, and since 1.4 stage3s have older versions,
10 merging these packages after a new install without a full update will
11 cause them to fail.
12
13 Daniel has been making an effort to fix offending ebuilds with this
14 problem, but everyone really needs to check over their ebuilds. This is
15 very widespread.
16
17 Thanks.
18
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20 Jon Portnoy
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