Bugzilla Bug 127720

Hi. I tried to emerge kwlaninfo, but it fails with the following error:

"
checking for KDE paths... defaults
checking for dcopidl... /usr/kde/3.5/bin/dcopidl
checking for dcopidl2cpp... /usr/kde/3.5/bin/dcopidl2cpp
checking for mcopidl... not found
configure: error: The important program mcopidl was not found!
Please check whether you installed aRts correctly.


!!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/kwlaninfo-0.9.4/work/kwlaninfo-0.9.4/config.log

!!! ERROR: net-wireless/kwlaninfo-0.9.4 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1526:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 923:   Called src_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 1236:   Called kde_src_compile
  kde.eclass, line 111:   Called kde_src_compile 'all'
  kde.eclass, line 228:   Called kde_src_compile 'myconf' 'configure' 'make'
  kde.eclass, line 211:   Called econf '--with-x' '--enable-mitshm'
'--without-xinerama' '--with-qt-dir=/usr/qt/3' '--enable-mt'
'--with-qt-libraries=/usr/qt/3/lib' '--disable-dependency-tracking'
'--disable-debug' '--without-debug' '--without-arts'
'--with-extra-includes=/usr/kde/3.5/include'
'--with-extra-libs=/usr/kde/3.5/lib'
  ebuild.sh, line 527:   Called die

!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.
"

emerge --info:
"
Portage 2.1_pre7-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r1,
2.6.16-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -Os -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env
/usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -Os -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer
parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.uni-c.dk/pub/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cdrw cli
crypt ctype cups dba dri dvd eds emboss encode expat fastbuild fbcon foomaticdb
force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 hal imlib ipv6
jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl
nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix python qt quicktime
readline sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl ssl tcpd tokenizer
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis wifi xml xmms xsl xv
zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
input_devices_synaptics input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU
video_cards_i810 video_cards_vesa"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY
"

Created an attachment (id=83215) [edit]
The config worklog

Created an attachment (id=83216) [edit]
The config worklog

Sorry for posting the configlog twice.

I just changed the ebuild - please sync and retry and see if it works for you.

It fails with the exact same error. The inly difference is that
'--without-arts' is specified twice.

From what I can find on the forums, 'mcopidl' is a part of arts. So there is
definitly a dependency error.

Yep, it looks like kwlaninfo doesn't allow you to build unless you have arts
installed.  This is a huge design error on their part, I suppose.

(In reply to comment #6)
> Yep, it looks like kwlaninfo doesn't allow you to build unless you have arts
> installed.  This is a huge design error on their part, I suppose.
I can confirm that it is a configure problem. If you run  make -f Makefile.cvs 
you will get some warnings about head -2 is deprecated, which suggests that
kwlaninfo uses old autotool or configuration files. I replaced the configure
script with a slightly modified one from another KDE program, but after
finishing without problems the make files were buggy (haven't trace these
problems). I sent an email with my findings to the author last week, but no
response so far.

Ahh, just realized the date was 2005 and not 2006, so yes, it's just the old
autotools.

I *think* that if you replace the admin dir with a more recent snapshot, and do
a "make -f Makefile.cvs" to rebuild configure, that should make things much
happier.

> I *think* that if you replace the admin dir with a more recent snapshot, and do
> a "make -f Makefile.cvs" to rebuild configure, that should make things much
> happier.
I can confirm that kwlaninfo configures, builds and runs with the admin
directory taken from kdelibs-3.5.2.

One way to make kwlaninfo built is to make it depending on kdesdk (or
appropiate split ebuild) and copy admin from
/usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kapptemplate/admin into kwlaninfo's directory. Maybe
dependencies to some autotools have to be added, too. This is just a theory and
is not tested yet. Maybe an upstream bugfix would be best...

*** Bug 134347 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Why has this bug still not been fixed?

Created an attachment (id=105370) [edit]
kwlaninfo-0.9.4.ebuild

Ebuild with arts patch (plus desktop file patch). Arts is needed at all - I
believe it's standard kdevelop project configure script (and it's broken as
usual)

Funny thing - I can't see applet in kde applet discovery dialog :/

Plz, test it.

Cheers,
Przemek

Created an attachment (id=105372) [edit]
kwlaninfo-arts_must_die.patch

kill arts dependency / tests

Created an attachment (id=105373) [edit]
kwlaninfo-desktop.patch

missing Type in desktop file (plus polish Comment translation)

Don't patch the tests out. Just update the damn admin directory.

Created an attachment (id=105376) [edit]
kwlaninfo-arts_must_die.patch (broken)

Diego - my knowlegde about autotools is still very limited... I dump everything
from patch, what wasn't in admin directory, but now - it fails with previous
error. If you could tell me, what do I have to patch, I'll correct the patch
ASAP.

I attached broken patch (for files in admin dir).

Cheers,
Przemek

add mirror://gentoo/kde-admindir-3.5.5.tar.bz2 to SRC_URI, make sure you're
using kde_src_unpack to unpack the sources, and you'll see it magically
working, without need for any patch.

(In reply to comment #17)
> add mirror://gentoo/kde-admindir-3.5.5.tar.bz2 to SRC_URI, make sure you're
> using kde_src_unpack to unpack the sources, and you'll see it magically
> working, without need for any patch.

Thx, works like a charm. Fixed in CVS.

Cheers,
Przemek