Bug 55607

Summary:	sys-devel/gettext has missing runtime dependency to cvs via autopoint
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Frank van de Pol (RETIRED) <fvdpol>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	azpegath, dagger, muczyjoe, nfortino
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	51857

Description Frank van de Pol (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-29 12:25:16 UTC

the autopoint utility contained in the gettext package fails at runtime if cvs is not installed on the system. CVS should either be added as a runtime dependency to gettext or the package/autopoint should be fixed to make it independend to CVS.

autoreconf-2.59: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf-2.59: running: autopoint --force
autopoint: *** cvs program not found
autopoint: *** Stop.
autoreconf-2.59: autopoint failed with exit status: 1


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-04 21:26:41 UTC

you neglected to provide `emerge info`

also, please post a complete log of the failure (emerge gettext >& log)

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-04 22:26:12 UTC

re-open once requested info has been provided

Comment 3 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 2008-11-09 21:35:02 UTC

Look inside /usr/bin/autopoint and see that it needs cvs to be usable. Bug is quite old but the issue is quite clear after looking inside that script.

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-03-02 16:53:47 UTC

unify some old bugs ...

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-03-02 16:54:42 UTC

packages that use autopoint should depend on cvs themselves ... most users of gettext do not use autopoint

Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-03-02 16:55:08 UTC

*** Bug 121373 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-03-02 16:55:12 UTC

*** Bug 143056 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-03-02 16:55:18 UTC

*** Bug 260706 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Nick Fortino 2009-05-03 09:46:26 UTC

I just ran across this myself. I understand not wanting to pull cvs into the system set, that would be ridiculous. Is there a reason not to do a use flag solution? 
Something along the lines of
RDEPEND="autopoint? ( dev-util/cvs )"

and then have any package using autopoint use EAPI 2 and depend on sys-devel/gettext[autopoint].