Problem emerging some packages

**josolanes** · 07-14-2005

I've run into a problem (I've read it's a bug

). When I try to emerge "drip" and a few other apps (can't remember others right now), I get the following error message after they are configured:

Code:

...
checking for correct ltmain.sh version... no

*** Gentoo sanity check failed! ***
*** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! ***
*** &#40;libtool.m4 = 1.5.18, ltmain.sh = 1.4.2&#41; ***

Please run&#58;

    libtoolize --copy --force

I tried running "libtoolize --copy --force" to see if that would fix it, but I got this when I ran that:

Code:

comp / # libtoolize --copy --force
libtoolize&#58; 'configure.ac' does not exist
Try 'libtoolize --help' for more information

I found some info on it here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/23449
That link helped inform me and, apparently, gives a solution but I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do

.

When I run "aclocal", i get this error:

Code:

aclocal-1.9&#58; 'configure.ac' or 'configure.in' is required

When I run "autoconf", I get this error:

Code:

autoconf-2.59&#58; no input file

In that link, they say "stick a `libtoolize --copy --force || die` in the mix" when you run aclocal or autoconf. I don't know how to run that with the others, though

. Also, does this mean, that I'll have to manually compile programs that give me problems (no more emerge) or have to type this every time I emerge something? I'm just very confused here and would really like to get this fixed.

I know this might be simplifying the problem a bit too much, but is there a way to update ltmain.sh so it is the correct version?

I've checked bugs.gentoo.org and found a few people who have had a similar problem (just different versions and with a different program), but there didn't seem to be any responses to their problems.

Here's the link to their problems
They're almost identical to mine like I said, but no solutions yet.

Can someone please help me?

**variant** · 07-14-2005

its a problem with various ebuilds.. im guessing you havent updated the portage tree for a while.

do so by running

Code:

emerge sync && emerge -av drip

**josolanes** · 07-14-2005

Originally Posted by variant

its a problem with various ebuilds.. im guessing you havent updated the portage tree for a while.

do so by running

Code:

emerge sync && emerge -av drip

i ran emerge sync immediately after i saw this problem...it fixed it one of the earlier times the problem arose (with a different ebuild), but not with this one or a few others.

i'll try running that to see if it fixes it though

EDIT: same thing

. it didn't happen before, but it started happening lately after i installed and updated a ton of things. do you think i should run "emerge -uDN world"? i've been avoiding this generally (running "emerge -u world" instead), but when i run "emerge -puDN world" i get a ton of packages that still need to be emerged/re-emerged/updated. do you think i should just run this and see how it goes from there? there are a lot of big packages that will be re-emerged though

(openoffice, perl, etc,...)

**variant** · 07-15-2005

yes that might be a good idea, you shouldnt bother update oofice though remove ti from the world file /var/lib/portage/world

(just remove the line with openoffice and save the file (as root) then when you emerge ud whatever it wont be included

**sdousley** · 07-15-2005

i had this problem with drip aswell, couldn't sort it out at all.

What was it u wanted it for?

**josolanes** · 07-15-2005

Originally Posted by sdousley

i had this problem with drip aswell, couldn't sort it out at all.

What was it u wanted it for?

just to rip some dvd movies to hard drive. i emerged dvdrip instead, but i'm having trouble with that too. i check the dependencies and i have everything it's looking for, but it still won't find anything on the dvd (titles, chapters, etc,...) so i can choose them and copy them.

**sdousley** · 07-16-2005

hmmm, yeh, i had this problem too.... what did i do to solve it...?

i'll have a think, and get back to you

EDIT:

think i got it.

add "dvdread" as a use flag, then re-emerge dvdrip

**josolanes** · 07-16-2005

Originally Posted by sdousley

hmmm, yeh, i had this problem too.... what did i do to solve it...?

i'll have a think, and get back to you

EDIT:

think i got it.

add "dvdread" as a use flag, then re-emerge dvdrip

I tried that, but it didn't work but I think I know why

. Earlier it complained about something to do with transcode and other things, so I'm going to "emerge -uN world" so all the packages that might use the dvdread use flag can use it.

a slightly off-topic question....
is it possible to give a user (other than root) access to devices? i can't burn with my normal user unless i open a terminal, su into root, and open it from there....which seems like an unnecessarily long string of steps to me.

**variant** · 07-16-2005

add "users" to the fstab line for your cdrom like this:

/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mmedia/cdrom iso9660 users,noauto,ro, 0 0

you can also change the permissions with udev in the file:

/etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions

**josolanes** · 07-16-2005

Originally Posted by variant

add "users" to the fstab line for your cdrom like this:

/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mmedia/cdrom iso9660 users,noauto,ro, 0 0

you can also change the permissions with udev in the file:

/etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions

ohhh, cool. i forgot about that

thanks a lot!

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