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I'm just finishing up a fresh AMD64 install, and am unable to build |
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firefox-31.3.0. The emerge fails when it runs autoconf: |
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# cat /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.3.0/temp/autoconf.out |
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***** autoconf ***** |
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***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.3.0/work/mozilla-esr31 |
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***** autoconf --force |
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Usage: autoconf [-h] [--help] [-m dir] [--macrodir=dir] |
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[-l dir] [--localdir=dir] [--version] [template-file] |
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/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.3.0/temp/autoconf.out lines 1-6/6 (END) |
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It appears that Firefox is using autoconf-2.13 which doesn't have a |
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--force option: |
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# autoconf --force |
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autoconf-2.69: error: no input file |
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# autoconf-2.13 --force |
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Usage: autoconf [-h] [--help] [-m dir] [--macrodir=dir] |
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[-l dir] [--localdir=dir] [--version] [template-file] |
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Google has found various sources that imply some versions of Firefox |
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require autoconf-2.13 and that newer versions won't work, but |
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eautoconf seems determined to use the --force options which isn't |
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supported by 2.13. |
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What's the trick to building Firefox? |
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Grant |
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