autogen failed to compile when the terminal was originally started from my account (tcsh) even if the su is set on bash. Switching to bash or sh before emerge did not solve it. However running emerge from root console (bash) worked. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. under amd64, with user shell set as tcsh 2. go super user, and emerge autogen 3. Actual Results: ... Making all in xml2ag make[2]: Entering directory `/disk0/gentoo/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/xml2ag' top_builddir=.. top_srcdir=.. PATH=`cd ../columns;pwd`:$PATH ; export top_builddir top_srcdir PATH ; /disk0/gentoo/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/agen5/autogen ./xmlopts.def Your shell is '/bin/tcsh'. AutoGen will attempt to use 'sh' Changing server shell from sh to /bin/sh top_builddir=.. top_srcdir=.. ; \ export top_builddir top_srcdir ; \ CLexe=/disk0/gentoo/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/columns/columns \ /disk0/gentoo/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/agen5/autogen -Tfork.tpl ./xmlopts.def Your shell is '/bin/tcsh'. AutoGen will attempt to use 'sh' Changing server shell from sh to /bin/tcsh Ambiguous output redirect. Closing server: Alarm clock signal (14) received Last command issued: cd /disk0/gentoo/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/xml2ag exec 8>&2 2>/dev/null if test -n "${ZSH_VERSION+set}" && (emulate sh) 1>&2 then emulate sh NULLCMD=: else if test -n "${BASH_VERSION+set}" && (set -o posix) 1>&2 then set -o posix fi ; fi for f in 1 2 5 6 7 13 14 do trap "echo trapped on $f >&2" $f ; done test -n "${CDPATH}" && { CDPATH='' unset CDPATH } ( unalias cd ) 1>&2 && unalias cd die() { echo $* >&8 kill -TERM ${AG_pid} exit 1 } exec 2>&8 AG_pid=8216 echo echo ShElL-OuTpUt-HaS-bEeN-cOmPlEtEd AutoGen aborting on signal 6 (Aborted) in state EMITTING processing template fork.tpl on line 113 for function EXPR (11) /bin/sh: line 3: 8216 Aborted CLexe=/disk0/gentoo/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/columns/columns /disk0/gentoo/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/agen5/autogen -Tfork.tpl ./xmlopts.def make[2]: *** [fork.c] Error 134 make[2]: Leaving directory `/disk0/gentoo/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/xml2ag' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/disk0/gentoo/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1615: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 972: Called qa_call 'src_compile' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile autogen-5.7.1.ebuild, line 33: Called die !!! emake failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/mnt/src/log/portage/sys-devel:autogen-5.7.1:20070626-213835.log'. Expected Results: The detection and change of shell seems to failed as : - I was under su which use bash, not tcsh (but my login user is tcsh) - Anyway the script seems to perform the shell switch in wrong direction "Changing server shell from sh to /bin/tcsh" emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:50:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.32 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo " LINGUAS="en en_GB fr" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/disk0/gentoo/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/overlays/m199" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi aiglx alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib cups daap dbus divx divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread dvi emboss emerald encode evo fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glitz glut gmedia gnome gnomedb gpm gstreamer gtk hal hddtemp iconv ioemu isdnlog jpeg kerberos libg++ libnotify lm_sensors mad metar midi mikmod mng mono mozbranding mp3 mpeg mudflap nautilus ncurses network nonfsv4 nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis ole openal opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl plotutils png ppds pppd pygrub python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection samba screen sdl sensord server session sftplogging smp sourceview spell spl ssl stream svg tcpd theora threads tiff totem truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode v4l v4l2 vnc vorbis wma wmp xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB fr" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Well, then run `su -` instead of su.
