Bug 336484 – gnulib's spawn.h breaks on uClibc (sys-devel/m4-1.4.15)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrew Frink 2010-09-08 20:20:34 UTC]

sys-devel/m4-1.4.15 fails to build with uclibc


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.set up amd64-gentoo-linux-uclibc with crossdev
2.ROOT="/uclibc_root" x86_46-gentoo-linux-uclibc-emerge --oneshot sys-devel/m4
3.Get "./spawn.h:403: error: field '_sp' has incomplete type"

Actual Results:  
m4 fails to build with uclibc

Expected Results:  
m4 builds and installs without error

Portage 2.1.9.1 (embedded, gcc-4.4.4, unavailable, 2.6.35-rc6-asf1 x86_64)
=================================================================
emerge --info

System uname: Linux-2.6.35-rc6-asf1-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_BE-2400-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:00:02 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p7
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.3
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.3-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r2, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.4-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.35 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -pipe  -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/__CHOST__/usr/include/ -I/usr/__CHOST__/include/"
CHOST="x86_64-gentoo-linux-uclibc"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/portage /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -pipe  -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/__CHOST__/usr/include/ -I/usr/__CHOST__/include/"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests buildpkg distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news nodoc noinfo noman parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/__CHOST__/lib -L/usr/__CHOST__/usr/lib"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/__CHOST__/packages/"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/usr/x86_64-gentoo-linux-uclibc/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/__CHOST__/tmp/"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/afrink

[Comment 1 Andrew Frink 2010-09-08 20:22:01 UTC]

Created attachment 246487 [details]
m4-1.4.15 build log

Added build.log

[Comment 2 Andrew Frink 2010-09-08 20:33:30 UTC]

Created attachment 246489 [details, diff]
A quick sed of a file fixes build issues.

add a sed version of the commit shown here[1] to src_unpack(). 

[1] http://cgit.openembedded.net/cgit.cgi?url=openembedded/commit/&id=0e3aefdda5ba74c8c9762fbdd6a619299a5062a4

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2010-11-20 04:28:15 UTC]

added to the tree and sent upstream