Bug 20374 – kdelibs-3.1.1a build fails due to configure error, could not find libpcre

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sergei Kononov 2003-05-03 04:56:58 UTC]

When I try to emerge kdelibs-3.1.1a, I get error about libpcre:
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configure: error: You're missing libpcre.                                      
      
Download libpcre from http://www.pcre.org or find a binary package for your
platform.     
Alternatively, you can specify --disable-pcre, but some web pages - using
regular         
expressions in Javascript code - will not work correctly, the regexp support
being        
quite limited if libpcre isn't present.
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But ld -lpcre, say 'ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; not setting
start address', as I know this mean that libpcre exists in system and ld can
find it.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge kdelibs


Actual Results:  
Error which I describe before

Expected Results:  
kdelibs-3.1.1a should be built

Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.5.68 i686 Celeron (Mendocino)
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/
http://212.219.56.131/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi crypt encode gif imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww
mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime sdl spell svga truetype xml2
xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline tcltk java X gpm tcpd pam ssl perl
python oggvorbis gtk qt motif opengl -gnome -cups"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

[Comment 1 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2003-05-03 05:02:36 UTC]

This is a libpcre bug. Which version of libpcre do you have?

[Comment 2 Sergei Kononov 2003-05-03 06:05:33 UTC]

I have libpcre-4.2

[Comment 3 Sergei Kononov 2003-05-03 06:08:17 UTC]

Well, I downgraded libpcre from 4.2 to 3.9-r2 and looks like 'emerge kdelibs' work normal.
Thanks

[Comment 4 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2003-05-03 06:24:02 UTC]

Remerging 4.2 (or using the 4.2-r1 I just committed) fixes the problem too. There was a libtool problem in libpcre having it fail if there wasn't a libpcre allready installed.