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-rw-r--r--eclass/autotools.eclass13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/eclass/autotools.eclass b/eclass/autotools.eclass
index ea85e73a8042..2bc70f7b3c00 100644
--- a/eclass/autotools.eclass
+++ b/eclass/autotools.eclass
@@ -442,10 +442,17 @@ autotools_env_setup() {
if [[ ${WANT_AUTOMAKE} == "latest" ]]; then
local pv
for pv in ${_LATEST_AUTOMAKE[@]/#*:} ; do
- # has_version respects ROOT, but in this case, we don't want it to,
- # thus "ROOT=/" prefix;
# Break on first hit to respect _LATEST_AUTOMAKE order.
- ROOT=/ has_version "=sys-devel/automake-${pv}*" && export WANT_AUTOMAKE="${pv}" && break
+ local hv_args=""
+ case ${EAPI:-0} in
+ 5|6)
+ hv_args="--host-root"
+ ;;
+ 7)
+ hv_args="-b"
+ ;;
+ esac
+ ROOT=/ has_version ${hv_args} "=sys-devel/automake-${pv}*" && export WANT_AUTOMAKE="${pv}" && break
done
[[ ${WANT_AUTOMAKE} == "latest" ]] && \
die "Cannot find the latest automake! Tried ${_LATEST_AUTOMAKE[*]}"