Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with aclocal

[Alan McKinnon]

On 01/05/2013 23:05, Rafa Griman wrote:
> Hi all :)
>
> 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.

You got that from the Forums, huh?

Um yeah, well, signal to noise there is out the roof.

I'd be double checking exactly what the Forum user said, as masking
autoconf seems to me like a guaranteed way to get portage to whinge very
loud and very long (half the tree DEPENDS on autoconf).

Maybe the poster meant to mask a /specific/ version of autoconf?
Start by masking the latest version you installed and proceed from there.





So I added
> autoconf to:
>
>      /etc/portage/package.mask
>
> 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 ...
>
> Right now I have:
>
> # equery list autoconf
>  * Searching for autoconf ...
> [IP-] [  ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13:2.1
> [IP-] [  ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.69:2.5
>
>
> # equery list automake
>  * Searching for automake ...
> [IP-] [  ] sys-devel/automake-1.10.3:1.10
> [IP-] [  ] sys-devel/automake-1.11.6:1.11
> [IP-] [  ] sys-devel/automake-1.12.6:1.12
> [IP-] [  ] sys-devel/automake-1.13.1:1.13
>
>
> # equery list automake-wrapper
>  * Searching for automake-wrapper ...
> [IP-] [  ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-8:0
>
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks :)
>
>    Rafa
>


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