Re: [gentoo-user] php (error?)

[Mick]

On Sunday 12 Jul 2015 20:40:35 James wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> So lately I've been using elogv for a convenience way to ensure no
> issues with the most recent packages installed or upgraded. It's a neat
> little tool. Today I found this:
>
> dev-lang/php-5.6.10 - 07/10/2015    {in purple}
>
> snipped::>
>
> "This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.
> Pleas │update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of
> autotools will die when it finds this file.  See
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details."
>
> OK, so I looked the bug. From what I read :
> > If we start now, to rename configure.in to configure.ac before
> > eautoreconf we will avoid lots of breakages due to the deprecation of
> > .in in automake-1.13.
>
> Makes sense; but I cannot find the file. I get lots of hits for a
> "configure.in" in my code trees, but little on the rest of the system; here
> are the few:
>
> /usr/portage/dev-lang/lua/files/configure.in
> /usr/share/cppunit/examples/money/configure.in
> (and quit a few on firefox.
>
> # equery depends =sys-devel/autoconf-2.13
>  * These packages depend on sys-devel/autoconf-2.13:
> app-admin/tripwire-2.4.2.2-r3 (sys-devel/autoconf)
> app-editors/vim-7.4.273 (sys-devel/autoconf)
> app-editors/vim-core-7.4.273 (sys-devel/autoconf)
> mail-client/thunderbird-31.7.0 (=sys-devel/autoconf-2.1*)
> net-libs/libnet-1.1.6 (sys-devel/autoconf)
> net-misc/openssh-6.7_p1 (sys-devel/autoconf)
> sys-apps/attr-2.4.47-r1 (sys-devel/autoconf)
> www-client/firefox-31.7.0 (=sys-devel/autoconf-2.1*)
> www-client/seamonkey-2.33.1-r1 (=sys-devel/autoconf-2.1*)
>
>
> Huh? really?  I have versions 2.13 and 2.69 of sys-devel/autoconf installed
>
>
> So, I'm kinda head scratching to decide what, if anything to fix?
> There much that I did not post, but they are all dead ends like:
>
> "For more details on how minor version slotting works (PHP_TARGETS) please
> read the upgrade guide: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml
> " from the elogview of the latest php install. That link is dead.
>
> Any suggestions? Is elogv borked in this case?
>
> /var/tmp/portage/php-5.6.10/work/php-5.1.6/config.log does not even
> exist....
>
> # eselect php list cli
>   [1]   php5.6 *
>
> Bottom line is I have not use php directly in some time, so it is quite
> easy that I missed some info from the devs on php changes..... I did not
> see anything in the news system nor pgo.

Did you start an emerge of php and then looked in your /var/tmp/portage to 
find it?

-- 
Regards,
Mick