Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with aclocal

[Rafa Griman]

Yo Alan !!

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 02/05/2013 17:09, Jackie wrote:
>> My problem was similiar to Rafa's,though I was compiling
>> dev-python/pygtk-2.24.0-r3.But I also got same autom4te & aclcal error
>> as Rafa.But I just masked automake-1.13.1 downgraded to automake-1.12.6
>> and the compilation went through,then I unmasked automake-1.31.1 and
>> upgraded it back again.Maybe you can try it,too.Just to solve the
>> problem for now.(After I upgradeed automake to 1.13.1,I compiled
>> dev-python/pygtk-2.24.0-r3,the same error appeared again,so it seemed
>> that sth might be wrong with automake-1.13.1)
>
> The easiest way to deal with that if it's just a single package failing is
>
> WANT_AUTOMAKE=<version> emerge ....
>
> It tells portage to not try autodetect stuff but rather to use the SLOT
> specified by you.
> In this case though, the breakage seems to be somewhat more than just a
> few packages, which probably requires masking till automake is fixed
> properly.


That's what I was trying but I guess I was masking blindly. As you
say, WANT_AUTOMAKE is useful when you've got just a handful of
packages. In my case ... let's say you've got big hands and both of
them are full ;)

I'll try to figure out what has to me masked. I'll check what Jackie
says in his e-mail and see if I get it working.


> The whole thing is rather a scathing comment at whoever committed the
> automake change, as quite obviously the correct answer to "How much
> testing did you do?" is "very little if any"


Well ... I'm testing right now ;) So if the developer/maintainer is
reading this thread ... hope it helps in some way. I can send him all
the info he might need/want.

Thanks guys !!

   Rafa