Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with aclocal

[Alan McKinnon]

On 02/05/2013 13:59, Rafa Griman wrote:
> Hi Neil,
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 May 2013 23:05:18 +0200, Rafa Griman wrote:
>>
>>> Got some problems with aclocal :( When running:
>>>
>>>     emerge -avDuN --with-bdeps=y world
>>>
>>> I get a whole bunch of packages who won't install nor upgrade with the
>>> following error:
>>>
>>>      Failed Running aclocal !
>>>
>>> Looking through the Forums I saw I've got to mask autoconf. So I added autoconf to:
>>>
>>>      /etc/portage/package.mask
>>
>> That's what you get with the forums, aclocal isn't even part of autoconf,
>> it is provided by automake-wrapper.
>
>
> I know, that's why I posted in another mail the automake and
> automake-wrapper versions I've got installed.
>
>
>>> And now I get a whole bunch of errors saying autoconf is masked and I
>>> have to unmask it ... which takes me back to step 1 ...
>>
>> There have been issues with automake-1.13. I have seen a similar error on
>> one package and worked around it with
>>
>> WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.12 emerge -1 cat/package



This works for me too when emerging libpaper, I'm running ~amd64

Obviously first thing to check is that you ran the correct command
(typos being so easy to make), and did remove all the maskings you added
whilst debugging. If it then still fails, you should probably join the
fun at bugs.gentoo.org and provide full info there so the devs can deal
with it correctly.





>
>
> Tried this too, still get errors :(
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
>    Rafa
>


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