Bug 120131 – mozilla-{firefox,thunderbird}-1.5 fails to ./configure, invalid package name

• Status: VERIFIED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jaak Ristioja 2006-01-23 21:31:40 UTC]

mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5

configure: error: application: invalid feature name

I guess this is related to such checks in ./configure:

if test -n "`echo $ac_feature| sed 's/[-_a-zA-Z0-9]//g'`"; then

These will not work correctly with Estonian locales (et_EE), because the Estonian alphabet does not end with Z, but with Y:

abcdefghijklmnopqrs

[Comment 1 Jaak Ristioja 2006-01-23 21:31:40 UTC]

mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5

configure: error: application: invalid feature name

I guess this is related to such checks in ./configure:

if test -n "`echo $ac_feature| sed 's/[-_a-zA-Z0-9]//g'`"; then

These will not work correctly with Estonian locales (et_EE), because the Estonian alphabet does not end with Z, but with Y:

abcdefghijklmnopqrsztuvwõäöüxy

Therefore some common English letters like tuvwxy do not fall into the range a-z. To circumvent this, one must set another locale in /etc/env.d/02locales, run "env-update" and "source /etc/profile". Using something like "LC_ALL=C emerge mozilla-thunderbird" won't work.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-01-24 00:26:59 UTC]

*** Bug 120128 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt 2006-01-24 04:23:27 UTC]

I need exact error and emerge info.

[Comment 4 Jaak Ristioja 2006-01-24 12:08:15 UTC]

Created attachment 78022 [details]
emerge output

I already stated the exact error, but just in case, this is the whole "emerge --oneshot mozilla-firefox" output.

[Comment 5 Jaak Ristioja 2006-01-24 12:09:34 UTC]

Created attachment 78023 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 6 Jaak Ristioja 2006-02-04 05:02:48 UTC]

This is probably the same as https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120133

Some other packages (eg sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1) also seem to have the same problem.

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2006-02-04 09:53:07 UTC]

i'm wondering if i should integrate this into portage for autopatching of autoconf-2.1x scripts ...

[Comment 8 Jaak Ristioja 2006-02-09 01:02:11 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> i'm wondering if i should integrate this into portage for autopatching of
> autoconf-2.1x scripts ...
> 

Would it be a realistic goal?

[Comment 9 Jaak Ristioja 2006-02-12 13:27:51 UTC]

Using the patch sys-devel/flex/files/flex-configure-LANG.patch after src_unpack seems to fix the issue for mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r1. It configured properly. I haven't the time to fully compile firefox or thunderbird today, but the flex patch might just work for both of them.

[Comment 10 Jory A. Pratt 2006-02-24 06:17:15 UTC]

fixed in tree

[Comment 11 Jory A. Pratt 2006-04-25 16:20:50 UTC]

Already been fixed

[Comment 12 Jaak Ristioja 2008-06-05 19:12:26 UTC]

1.5 no longer in portage, RIP. Closing.