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eno
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 Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 9:32 pm Post subject: GNU M4 required (emerge system) |
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The topic pretty much says it but, I was trying to reinstall gentoo after having a horrible accident, and all was going fine until I did an "emerge system" and it gave me that "GNU M4 required" message. I tried redoing everything about three times, and still no luck.
I am running red hat right now, but I am really missing gentoo. If anyone knows any info on how to fix this, please let me know. |
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Supermule
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 9:44 pm Post subject: Re: GNU M4 required (emerge system) |
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| eno wrote: | The topic pretty much says it but, I was trying to reinstall gentoo after having a horrible accident, and all was going fine until I did an "emerge system" and it gave me that "GNU M4 required" message. I tried redoing everything about three times, and still no luck.
I am running red hat right now, but I am really missing gentoo. If anyone knows any info on how to fix this, please let me know. |
Just emerge M4 before doing the "emerge system"....I cant remeber the precise name for it (And Im not on my Gentoo machine right now), But try this:
-and see what it is called. (Remember that we are case-sensitive so its perhaps "m4")
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alextxm
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 6:51 am Post subject: |
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the same happened to me yesterday trying to install gentoo 1.4rc4.
problem is, I think, a wrong dependency tree being used by portage.
I solved the whole thing emerging m4 by hand (emerge m4) and the restarting emerge system.
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mb4guns
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 7:13 am Post subject: |
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or wrong use flags ?
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amigadave
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| mb4guns wrote: | | or wrong use flags ? |
Nope, this even happens with the default USE flags. I tried it on a friend's machine yesterday and got the same result. |
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Fraggle
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| I also had that problem, I just emerged m4... |
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Blasted
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Me too,
used #emerge autoconf and #emerge -u system to get by |
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alextxm
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| fixed: see bug #20095 |
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