Re: Emacs trunk bootstrapping fails since about two days

[Paul Eggert]

On 01/19/11 11:07, Tassilo Horn wrote:
>> But 'configure' on the trunk does not contain the string 'gl_EARLY'.
> `configure.in' does.
> 
>> > My guess is that you're not bootstrapping from a clean version of the
>> > trunk.  Maybe you rebuilt 'configure' by running 'autoconf' without
>> > running 'aclocal -I m4' first?  Perhaps the simplest fix is to start
>> > over with a fresh copy of the trunk.
> No, I use the gentoo live ebuild, which just updates some checkout in
> some package manager directory, copies that to some temp directory and
> does the compile there.  So the checkout should be totally clean.

If the checkout is totally clean, then 'configure' cannot contain 'gl_EARLY'.
Most likely what's happening is that the gentoo live ebuild is invoking
'autoconf' without pointing 'autoconf' at the proper m4 macros,
and that this incorrect invocation of 'autoconf' is copying 'gl_EARLY'
from configure.in to configure.

What does the the gentoo live ebuild do other than 'configure; make install'?
Does it pass unusual arguments to configure?