Bugzilla Bug 129479

i tried recompiling kismet, and got an error

[snip]

/usr/bin/confcache --confcache-ignore /var/tmp/ccache:/var/tmp/.distcc
--confcache-dir /var/tmp/confcache ./configure --prefix=/usr
--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib
--with-linuxheaders=/usr/src/linux/include --libdir=/usr/lib64
--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
configure: loading cache config.cache

[snip]

configure: configuring in libpcap-0.9.1-kis
configure: running /bin/sh './configure' --prefix=/usr  '--prefix=/usr'
'--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man'
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc'
'--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--with-linuxheaders=/usr/src/linux/include'
'--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' '--cache-file'
'config.cache' 'CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe' 'CXXFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2
-pipe' 'build_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
--cache-file=../config.cache --srcdir=.
configure: loading cache ../config.cache
configure: error: `CC' was not set in the previous run
configure: error: changes in the environment can compromise the build
configure: error: run `make distclean' and/or `rm ../config.cache' and start
over
configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for libpcap-0.9.1-kis

!!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/kismet-2005.08.1-r1/work/kismet-2005-08-R1/config.log

!!! ERROR: net-wireless/kismet-2005.08.1-r1 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1526:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 923:   Called src_compile
  kismet-2005.08.1-r1.ebuild, line 54:   Called econf
'--with-linuxheaders=/usr/src/linux/include'
  ebuild.sh, line 527:   Called die

!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.
[/snip]

it compiles fine with FEATURES="-confcache"

Created an attachment (id=84364) [details]
config.log

portage asked me to include it, so here it is

Created an attachment (id=84365) [details]
libpcap-0.9.1-kis/config.log

from the libpcap subdirectory, since it seems relevant

emerge --info output:
Portage 2.1_pre7-r4 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
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-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-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/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo
/etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer
sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/overlays/gentopia
/usr/local/overlays/breakmygentoo /usr/local/overlays/ecatmur
/usr/local/overlays/java-experimental"
SYNC="rsync://antrat.net/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli crypt ctype cups dba
dbus dri dvdr eds emboss expat fastbuild firefox foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect
fortran ftp gd gif gnome gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 isdnlog
jikes john jpeg kde kdeenablefinal lzw lzw-tiff md5sum memlimit mp3 mpeg
musicbrainz ncurses nethack nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin opengl pam pam_console
pcre pdf pdflib perl png posix pppd python qt quicktime readline samba sdl
session simplexml soap sockets spell spl ssl svg symlink tcpd tidy tiff
tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb wifi xml xpm xsl xv zeroconf
zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
input_devices_synaptics kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_fglrx"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS

This is going to be interesting since there was just a version bump and they
didn't put in this restrict.

Why wasn't I CC:'ed on this?

If anyone cares, kismet-2006-04.1 still has this problem.

Fixed in net-wireless/kismet-2006.04.1.