Bug 178108 – sci-mathematics/octave-2.1.73-r2 build fails with libtool-1.5.23b

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Volkmar Glauche 2007-05-11 20:40:13 UTC]

seems to be the "sed" error.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge octave-2.1.73-r2
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
build fails.

[Comment 1 Volkmar Glauche 2007-05-11 20:41:36 UTC]

Created attachment 118907 [details]
build log

[Comment 2 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2007-05-12 14:59:26 UTC]

Hi Volkmar,

Thanks for your bug report! I don't think octave uses libtool and the
cause for your problems probably lies somewhere else (please correct
me if I am wrong). It builds fine with libtool-1.5.23b on my dev boxes.

Could you please post your emerge --info and have a look at 
octMakefile to see if there's something obviously broken.

Thanks,
Markus

[Comment 3 Volkmar Glauche 2007-05-13 07:38:27 UTC]

Created attachment 119070 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 4 Volkmar Glauche 2007-05-13 07:38:46 UTC]

Created attachment 119072 [details]
octMakefile

[Comment 5 Volkmar Glauche 2007-05-13 07:40:25 UTC]

Created attachment 119073 [details]
config.log

I think the problem is with the configure test for sed - it does not find sed, but does not fail either.

[Comment 6 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2007-05-17 12:00:06 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Created an attachment (id=119073) [edit]
> config.log
> 
> I think the problem is with the configure test for sed - it does not find sed,
> but does not fail either.
> 

In this case I assume that in Makeconf you have the line 
SED = 
instead of
SED = /bin/sed

Which version of sed do you have installed and could you
possibly try reemerging it.

Thanks,
Markus

[Comment 7 Volkmar Glauche 2007-05-18 07:06:13 UTC]

~ # sed --version
GNU sed version 4.1.5
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
to the extent permitted by law.

There is no mention of a SED variable anywhere in /etc/make.conf or /etc/make.conf.example (I built my make.conf from this example file). Is this documented somewhere else?

Re-emerging sed (same version, same use flags) seems to solve this issue, however.

[Comment 8 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2007-05-19 01:10:28 UTC]

Hi  Volkmar,

I am glad it works! Just to clarify, I was not referring to gentoo's
/etc/make.conf but rather to the file Makeconf in octave's build
directory; there indeed is not SED variable in /etc/make.conf ;)

I suspect there was a problem with your sed binary that caused
the test in octave's configure to fail. Unfortunately, configure
decided to keep going anyway instead of doing the right thing
and quitting.

cheers,
Markus