Emerging ntp 4.1.2

WildChild · Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 171

When I try to emerge ntp 4.1.2 I get this error:

valhalla conf.d # USE="parse-clocks" emerge ntp
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) net-misc/ntp-4.1.2 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-)

ntp-4.1.2.tar.gz
>>> md5 src_uri ;-)

ntp-4.1.2-manpages.tbz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking ntp-4.1.2.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/ntp-4.1.2/work
>>> Unpacking ntp-4.1.2-manpages.tbz2 to /var/tmp/portage/ntp-4.1.2/work
* Applying broadcastclient.patch... [ ok ] * Applying 4.1.2-droproot.patch... [ ok ] * Applying linux-config-phone.patch... [ ok ]configure.in:2496: /usr/bin/m4: Warning: Excess arguments to built-in `m4_pushdef' ignored
autom4te-2.57a: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal).
automake-1.7: no `Makefile.am' found or specified

!!! ERROR: net-misc/ntp-4.1.2 failed.
!!! Function src_unpack, Line 50, Exitcode 1
!!! automake

Does anyone knows?

meowsqueak · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 3:46 am Post subject:

Try playing around with the WANT_AUTOMAKE variable.

Just in case:

Disclaimer: this is purely a guess, I don't know if this is the solution or not. But I think it is worth looking into. Any comments are welcome.

WildChild · Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 171

emerge sync
emerge -UDV world

automake has been updated and ntp now compile

blueiris · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:03 am Post subject:

I tried the emerge thingy but still get the following error message:

TGL · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 12:19 pm Post subject:

It's an autoconf bug. You'll find a fix here. The simpliest way to apply it is to:
- save the attached patch in /usr/portage/sys-devel/autoconf/files/autoconf-2.57a-AC_HELP_STRING.diff
- edit /usr/portage/sys-devel/autoconf/autoconf-2.57a.ebuild and add the following line at the end of src_unpack function:

blueiris · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 12:48 am Post subject:

Yes. It works now. Thanks TGL.