Re: obsolete.test failed for 1.8.5-r1 on Gentoo

[Brant Gurganus]

Mark D. Baushke wrote:

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> Brant Gurganus <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
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> >    
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> > > > > > "Brant" == Brant Gurganus <address@hidden> writes:
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> > > > > >
> > > > > >            
> > > Brant> The obsolete.test test case failed for version 1.8.5-r1 on Gentoo.
> > > Brant> The results of running that test manually from outside the Portage
> > > Brant> sandbox are:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Brant> ++ grep AC_FEATURE_CTYPE stderr
> > > Brant> ++ exit 1
> > >
> > > Thanks for the report.
> > >
> > > What do tests/testSubDir/stderr and
> > > tests/testSubDir/configure.in contain after the test has failed?
> > >
> > >
> > >      
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> This is a gentoo configuration problem. The wrapper script really should
> be bright enough to notice the -o switch and that should imply it should
> use 2.5, but it is doing the intiuit of what version to use based on the 
> following:
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> # Executes the correct autoconf version.
> #
> # - defaults to autoconf-2.13
> # - runs autoconf-2.59 if it exists and...
> #   - envvar WANT_AUTOCONF is set to `2.5'
> #     -or-
> #   - configure.ac is present
> #     -or-
> #   - `configure.in' contains AC_PREREQ and the value's 3 first letters
> #     are stringwise greater than '2.13'
> #     -or-
> #   - `configure' is already present and was generated by autoconf greater than
> #     '2.13'
> #     -or-
> #   - `Makefile.in' was generated by automake-1.6 or superior, which
> #     specifically needs autoconf-2.59
> #
>
> The workaround is to put the following into your environment:
>
>  WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5; export WANT_AUTOCONF
>
> which should fix things. Another possibility which may fail unless you
> have the latest version of automake would be
>
>  AUTOCONF=/usr/bin/autoconf-2.59; export AUTOCONF
>
> however that will give heartburn to the automake missing tests.
>
> Opening a bug report with the gentoo folks may also make sense.
>
>         -- Mark
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> > stderr:
> > Usage: autoconf [-h] [--help] [-m dir] [--macrodir=dir]
> >       [-l dir] [--localdir=dir] [--version] [template-file]
> >
> >
> > configure.in:
> > stSubDir/configure.in
> > AC_INIT
> > AC_FEATURE_CTYPE
> > AC_FEATURE_ERRNO
> > AM_CYGWIN32
> > AM_EXEEXT
> > AM_FUNC_MKTIME
> > AM_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ_NEEDS_SYS_IOCTL
> > AM_MINGW32
> > AM_PROG_INSTALL
> > AM_SANITY_CHECK_CC
> > AM_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS
> > fp_FUNC_FNMATCH
> > fp_PROG_INSTALL
> > md_TYPE_PTRDIFF_T
> >
> >
> >
> >    
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If there are any further details, I've got a bug filed with Gentoo at 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68929

--
Brant Gurganus
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~gurganbl