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Bug 186040 - emerge xorg-x11 died in fontconfig with an error about .m4 and .sh mistmatch for libtool
Summary: emerge xorg-x11 died in fontconfig with an error about .m4 and .sh mistmatch ...
Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2007-07-20 23:03 UTC by Richard Lynch
Modified: 2007-07-22 06:02 UTC (History)
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Description Richard Lynch 2007-07-20 23:03:17 UTC
I was doing a simple straight-forward addition of xorg-x11 and...

fonconfig died with a message about the libtool in .m4 and .sh mismatch.

It said to libtoolize --copy --force, and I figured out on my own WHERE to do that. :-)

Continuing with emerge --resume --skipfirst xorg-x11 seems to be going okay, as it is madly compiling away a zillion things as usual.

Haven't finished it or anything, mind you...


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge --sync as of JULY 19 2007
2. Yes, I did emerge portage as instructed
3. emerge xorg-x11

POSSIBLE RED HERRINGS:
I was dinking around with autoconf / automake / libtool (and flex and bison) to install PHP from CVS according to these instructions:
http://php.net/anoncvs.php

I HAD rolled back my autoconf / automake /libtool as instructed, but missed the flex version requirement (which has just been changed on that page to be idiot-proof, thanks to me being an idiot).

I believe I am current in my make tools:
autoconf: 2.61
automake: 1.10
libtool: 1.5.23b

In addition to /usr/bin/libtool (1.5.23b) I have a /usr/local/bin/libtool which I downloaded and compiled from source which is version 1.4.3 as I thought PHP needed that.  It doesn't, and I should probably nuke it.

Actual Results:  
checking for correct ltmain.sh version... no
configure: error:

*** [Gentoo] sanity check failed! ***
*** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! ***
*** (libtool.m4 = 1.5.23b, ltmain.sh = 1.4.3) ***

Please run:

  libtoolize --copy --force

if appropriate, please contact the maintainer of this
package (or your distribution) for help.


!!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/fontconfig-2.4.2/work/fontconfig-2.4.2/config.log

!!! ERROR: media-libs/fontconfig-2.4.2 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1621:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 973:   Called qa_call 'src_compile'
  ebuild.sh, line 44:   Called src_compile
  fontconfig-2.4.2.ebuild, line 41:   Called econf '--disable-docs' '--disable-docbook' '--localstatedir=/var' '--with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.4.2' '--with-default-fonts=/usr/share/fonts' '--with-add-fonts=/usr/local/share/fonts,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts' '--disable-libxml2'
  ebuild.sh, line 578:   Called die

!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/fontconfig-2.4.2/temp/build.log'.

The complete log is available here:
http://www.l-i-e.com/gentoo/build.log


Expected Results:  
I would have expected it to use the same libtool I'd get from the command line environment, and not find the one in /usr/local/bin/libtool as it seems to have done?...

Or is that a red herring and this is broken for everybody?...


Even if it's just my old version of libtool off in the /usr/local/bin directory, that shouldn't have interfered, imho, as a naive user...

I'll try again after I nuke that just to see what happens.

Mainly because I'm unsure of stability if some other software didn't catch the mis-match and used the wrong libtool...  Got no idea what that would do.

I'm leaving severity at Normal, as I don't know enough to choose correctly.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-20 23:06:33 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> In addition to /usr/bin/libtool (1.5.23b) I have a /usr/local/bin/libtool which
> I downloaded and compiled from source which is version 1.4.3 as I thought PHP
> needed that.  It doesn't, and I should probably nuke it.

Well, that's clearly your problem, remove it. :)

Comment 2 Richard Lynch 2007-07-20 23:13:07 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > In addition to /usr/bin/libtool (1.5.23b) I have a /usr/local/bin/libtool which
> > I downloaded and compiled from source which is version 1.4.3 as I thought PHP
> > needed that.  It doesn't, and I should probably nuke it.
> 
> Well, that's clearly your problem, remove it. :)
> 

Well, yeah, but what if a developer needs other versions of libtool laying around?...

More importantly, why is emerge using the one from /usr/local/lib sometimes but not other times?
Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-20 23:20:35 UTC
Erm, you certainly don't need libtool-1.4.3 for anything. If you insist on having it installed, move it out of your $PATH (/usr/local/bin) before you emerge anything; local cruft in /usr/local is not our problem.
Comment 4 Richard Lynch 2007-07-22 03:22:44 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Erm, you certainly don't need libtool-1.4.3 for anything. If you insist on
> having it installed, move it out of your $PATH (/usr/local/bin) before you
> emerge anything; local cruft in /usr/local is not our problem.
> 

Forgive me for not being clear enough.

/usr/local/bin is not in root's path.

%root> `libtool --version` outputs 1.5.23b as expected.

emerge then goes and uses the libtool NOT in my path, at some point in the process, afaict...

If I was dumb enough to have the old version in my path when I started emerge, I wouldn't have posted it as a bug in the first place.

I'm stupid, but not THAT stupid. :-)

Perhaps it does some kind of 'su' to a different user where /usr/local/bin is in the path?

My assumption was that everything was done as 'root' as only root can emerge (at least without tweaking more than I have)
Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-22 06:02:41 UTC
emerge --info -v | grep $PATH