Autoconf error emerging gnome-system-tools

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saffsd · Post by **saffsd** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:15 am

 * Running autoconf ...                                                                   [ !! ]

 * Failed Running autoconf !
 * 
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
 * 
 *   /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/gnome-system-tools-2.14.0/temp/autoconf-15523.out


!!! ERROR: app-admin/gnome-system-tools-2.14.0 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1613:   Called dyn_unpack
  ebuild.sh, line 750:   Called qa_call 'src_unpack'
  environment, line 3605:   Called src_unpack
  gnome-system-tools-2.14.0.ebuild, line 52:   Called eautoreconf
  autotools.eclass, line 96:   Called eautoconf
  autotools.eclass, line 166:   Called autotools_run_tool 'autoconf'
  autotools.eclass, line 219:   Called die

!!! Failed Running autoconf !
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-admin/gnome-system-tools-2.14.0/temp/build.log'.

contents of a/m:

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***** autoconf *****

configure.in:198: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_SYSTEM_TOOLS_BACKENDS
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.

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Portage 2.1.2-r8 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.19-beyond4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.19-beyond4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:20:01 +0000
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  0.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS=""
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.64hosting.com/pub/mirrors/gentoo/ http://mirrors.64hosting.com/pub/mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Gentoo"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/portage/local/layman/custom-kernels"
SYNC="rsync://mirror.linux.org.au/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi aiglx alsa apache2 arts bash-completion beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts branding cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal evo firefox foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kqemu libg++ libwww mad midi mikmod mmx mono motif mozilla mp3 mpeg nautilus ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg ole opengl oss pam pam_console pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl server session slang spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcltk tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vim vorbis widescreen x86 xml xorg xprint xv xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa ati fglrx"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

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Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     UD] app-admin/gnome-system-tools-2.14.0 [2.17.2] USE="samba -debug -nfs (-doc%) (-gnome%*)" 0 kB

As you can see I'm trying to downgrade from a break-my-gentoo ebuild (which doesn't work

). How come there isn't a gnome 2.16 ebuild in portage for it anyway? in any case, hope someone can shed light on what I need to do to get it to work. Thanks!

edit: The break-my-gentoo ebuild compiles, but user-admin is useless as it crashes every time you exit it. Just in case anyone wants to know

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:45 pm

reinstall both autoconf versions that you have installed.
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61

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emerge =sys-devel/autoconf-2.1.3 =sys-devel/autoconf-2.6.1

see if that helps.
I have the same and it compiles fine for me.

System_Failure · Post by **System_Failure** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:02 am

didn't work for me ;; any other ideas?

Raenk · Post by **Raenk** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:16 am

Being a long time since the last post on this, but I have the same problem, can't go back from gnome-system-tools-2.20.0 to 2.14

Same 'running autoconf failed' issue.

any ideas ?

Raenk · Post by **Raenk** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:23 am

Well, few minutes later I solved it.

Need to downgrade 'system-tools-backends' first and then downgrade 'gnome-system-tools'

That did it for me.