Bugzilla Bug 58350

After emerge -u world ran, my xemacs failed to load all the shared libs so I
rebuilt gdbm and ran 

revdep-rebuild --soname libgdbm.so.2

And xemacs would still not run after that.

So I unmerged it and tried to merge it and now I get a consistent error of 

checking for dbm_open in -lgdbm... no
Error: Required GNU DBM support cannot be provided.

!!! ERROR: app-editors/xemacs-21.4.15 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 161, Exitcode 1
!!! (no error message)


I have tried running the ebuild by hand but it fails there as well.  I have
walked through the relevant sounding bugs and forums and tried various
solutions there (most having to do with athena widgets) and tried them and no
go.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge xemacs
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
checking for dbm_open in -lgdbm... no
Error: Required GNU DBM support cannot be provided.

!!! ERROR: app-editors/xemacs-21.4.15 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 161, Exitcode 1
!!! (no error message)


Expected Results:  
Successfully emerged xemacs and let me go back to work.


Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r0,
2.4.22-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.1
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe -m3dnow -mmmx"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo
/etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe -m3dnow -mmmx"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apache2 apm arts athena avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups doc encode
esd ethereal evo fbcon flash foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2
gtkhtml guile imap imlib java jikes jpeg junit kde lcms libg++ libgda libwww
mad
mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss
pam pda pdflib perl pic plotutils png postgres python qt quicktime readline
ruby
sasl sdl slang slp snmp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb wmf
x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zeo zlib"

Created an attachment (id=36160) [edit]
config.log from failed ru n.

Hi,

same problem here.
I came along from Bug 58220:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58220
"libgdbm.so.2 with zero bytes size/ too short"

which is fixed now, but still no chance
to emerge / re-emerge xemacs!
Same error, "Required GNU DBM support cannot be provided."

Greetinge, Florian

Yup.  Went through all the stuff in 58220 and it didn't help.

Please don't make this a dupe of that.

I can offer you a (quick and dirty) way to compile xemacs.
On my system I found a zero byte libgdbm.so.2.0.0, so I got rid of it:
> emerge gdbm unmerge;emerge --oneshot gdbm
Then emerge xemacs and stop (Ctrl-S) right after '>>> Source unpacked.'
Edit line 4422f of configure.in in another window:
/var/tmp/portage/xemacs-21.4.15/work/xemacs-21.4.15/configure.in:4422:
  AC_CHECK_LIB(gdbm, gdbm_open, [
   with_database_gdbm=yes with_database_dbm=no libdbm="-lgdbm_compat -lgdbm"], [
and run autoconf:
> cd /var/tmp/portage/xemacs-21.4.15/work/xemacs-21.4.15;autoconf-2.13
Continue (Ctrl-Q) the emerge.

This hack gives a hint how to fix xemacs permanently. The old (version 2)
libgdbm had a function dbm_open (no 'g') which is now in libgdbm_compat.
The new (version 3) libgdbm only has a function gdbm_open and that is why configure fails to find dbm_open.

Hmmm.  That suggestion didnt' work for me.  BUT it gave met he idea of doing
the following: LIBS="-lgdbm_compat -lgdbm" ebuild 
/usr/portage/app-editors/xemacs/xemacs-21.4.15.ebuild compile (after the normal
steps of course).

Still, it is a hack.  The proper fix ought to get implemented somewhere.

Thanks, editing configure.in as suggested in comment #4 worked for me.

I used 

ebuild xemacs-21.4.15.ebuild unpack
cd /var/tmp/portage/xemacs-21.4.15/work/xemacs-21.4.15
edit configure.in as per comment #4
autoconf-2.13
ebuild xemacs-21.4.15.ebuild compile
ebuild xemacs-21.4.15.ebuild install
ebuild xemacs-21.4.15.ebuild qmerge

I forgot to add that I also did

emerge -C gdbm
emerge --oneshot gdbm
sudo emerge -C openoffice-bin
revdep-rebuild --soname libgdbm.so.2

took me a couple of iterations.

Re: Comment #4 and comment #6:

Following these things worked for me, too.

So I would suggest patching configure.in as in comment #4 and running autoconf-2.13 as in comment #6. I'm not sure how to modify the ebuild to add these steps, but doing it by hand worked.

Bug 32510 shows some work on this, as well as the problem of a zero-length
libgdbm.so.2 showing up.

This work-around worked for me:
 emerge --nodeps --oneshot =gdbm-1.8.0-r5
 emerge xemacs
 emerge gdbm

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58220 ***

This bug is NOT a dupe.  Please read down.  dbm_open has moved out of libgdbm
into libgdbm_compat.  xemacs is not expecting it there, and requires the ebuild
be hacked.

Created an attachment (id=37403) [edit]
enable xemacs to build using libgdbm 1.8.3

This patch + calling autoconf-2.13 in the ebuild compile step should fix the
problem with needing libgdbm_compat.

Well xemacs-21.4.12 still borks on me...


checking for dbm_open in -lgdbm... no
Error: Required GNU DBM support cannot be provided.

!!! ERROR: app-editors/xemacs-21.4.12 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 157, Exitcode 1
!!! (no error message)



xyz@tux ~ $ emerge  -p gdbm

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3-r1


xyz@tux ~ $ ls -l /usr/lib/libgdbm*
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 33858 Aug 19 00:56 /usr/lib/libgdbm.a
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   699 Aug 19 00:56 /usr/lib/libgdbm.la
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    16 Aug 19 00:56 /usr/lib/libgdbm.so -> libgdbm.so.3.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    16 Aug 19 00:56 /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3 -> libgdbm.so.3.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 25265 Aug 19 00:56 /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3.0.0
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 16426 Aug 19 00:56 /usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.a
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   748 Aug 19 00:56 /usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.la
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    23 Aug 19 00:56 /usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so -> libgdbm_compat.so.3.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    23 Aug 19 00:56 /usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so.3 -> libgdbm_compat.so.3.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 12708 Aug 19 00:56 /usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so.3.0.0

Haven't tried the fix though... Better w8 for xemacs in portage to get fixed..
:)

This is still broken on 21.4.15-r1.

Is anyone going to work on this?

*** Bug 61099 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Created an attachment (id=38132) [edit]
updated patch for xemacs-21.4.15-r1 to enable xemacs to build using libgdbm
1.8.3

Created an attachment (id=38138) [edit]
applies patch to configure.in to allow libgdm to be used and then calls
autoconf-2.13

Ok so I created a <a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=38132">
patch</a> for configure.in, put it in /usr/portage/app-editors/xemacs/files,
also created a <a
href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=38138">patch</a> for the
xemacs-21.4.15-r1 ebuild which applies the configure.in patch and calls
autoconf-2.13. xemacs then emerges for me. 

However, I'm not too clear on patch naming conventions, nor whether just
calling autoconf-2.13 in the src_unpack as I did is ok (putting it in
src_compile is suggested in comment 12, but that puts the ebuild changes in two
places, and it was not clear to me that it was the better place). 

I would really like to be using the xemacs beta (currently at 21.5.17). Who
knows, if I understand a little more of the ebuilds, others are interested and
I'm not standing on someone's toes, I may put together an ebuild for it.
(bugzilla is probably the wrong place for this suggestion - should shift to the
forums I guess).

I can confirm that with this fix the ebuild emerges like a charm.
would like to see it in portage tree soon

I can confirm that with this fix the ebuild emerges like a charm.
would like to see it in portage tree soon

Included in -r2, thanks for all the help.

Note this breaks app-editors/xemacs-21.4.15-r2 if it's installed with ~x86 but
gdbm isn't, because the xemacs won't work with gdbm-1.8.0.  Could the ebuild be
modified to make this explicit (that is, require sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3)?

Modified the gdbm patch so that it builds against either 1.8.0 or 1.8.3.

Alright... I am having the same output error message and problems with xemacs
21.4.15-r3. I have been working on this for 3 days and It seems that the
proposed are not applied during the configure process. How can I make sure that
these patches are applied so that emerge works properly.

 Also, I upgraded to gdbm-1.8.3-r1. Dunno if that has anything to do with the
problem. I am however able to manually compile and install the program. If do
decide to excute the ebuild script manually, how do I unmerge the old version? 

Paul

emerge info

ortage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.200
50125-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Mar 19 2005, 02:37:27)]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r6
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.14
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/kde/
3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/shutdow
n /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/sh
are/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/us
r/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/te
x/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/
/va
r/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/gentoo/
http://gentoo.llarian                  .net/
ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.     
            sdv.fr http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/gentoo/
http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups
cur                  l directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr emacs emboss encode esd evo
fam flac font-server                   foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome
gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile i                  magemagick
imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla           
       mp3 mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds
python qt qui                  cktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk
tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype t                  ruetype-fonts type1-fonts
wmf wxwindows xml xml2 xmms xv yahoo zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Your problem looks to be entirely unrelated, it just happens to give this error
message when it can't find libXm also. Try this:

emerge openmotif
rm -rf /usr/include/Xm
ln -s /usr/include/openmotif-2.2/Xm/ /usr/include/Xm
emerge xemacs

*** Bug 70999 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***