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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-dev] WANT_AUTOCONF= and WANT_AUTOMAKE= in ebuilds
From:       Jon Portnoy <avenj () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2004-01-30 16:45:28
Message-ID: 20040130164528.GA12382 () cerberus ! oppresses ! us
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(Crossposting to -core and -dev to make sure everyone sees this; this is 
fairly important.)

A lot of ebuilds are using the new WANT_AUTO{CONF,MAKE}= syntax to 
select a desired version of autoconf (as opposed to the deprecated 
WANT_AUTO{CONF,MAKE}_1_?=1 syntax). For autoconf, these ebuilds must 
have a DEPEND for >=sys-devel/autoconf-2.58. For automake, they must 
have a DEPEND for >=sys-devel/automake-1.7.2. Older versions do not 
support the old-style syntax, and since 1.4 stage3s have older versions, 
merging these packages after a new install without a full update will 
cause them to fail.

Daniel has been making an effort to fix offending ebuilds with this 
problem, but everyone really needs to check over their ebuilds. This is 
very widespread.

Thanks.

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Jon Portnoy
avenj/irc.freenode.net

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