wxGTK won't configure. See below. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # emerge wxGTK Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) wxGTK-2.4.2.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking wxGTK-2.4.2.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/wxGTK-2.4.2/work * Applying wxGTK-2.4.1-contrib.patch... [ ok ] * Applying wxGTK-2.4.2-contrib_animate.patch... [ ok ]>>> Source unpacked. configure: error: gtk: invalid package name !!! ERROR: x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 335, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed # emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.8p1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="oss foomaticdb mad mikmod spell gdbm berkdb tetex nas gpm pam perl esd gtk motif ipv6 apache2 3dnow acpi alsa apm arts avi bonobo cdr cjk crypt cups dga doc dvd encode evo gb gd ggi ggz gif gnome gphoto2 gtk2 gtkhtml imlib java jikes jpeg kde kerberos lcms ldap libg++ libgda libwww mbox mmx mozilla mpeg ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl pdflib pic png python qt qtmt quicktime readline scanner sdl slang socks5 sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype wmf X xml xml2 xmms xv zlib x86 php mysql"
can you attach the output of emerge --debug wxGTK ?
Created attachment 19174 [details] emerge --debug wxGTK As you requested, here's the output of emerge --debug wxGTK. Doesn't seem very useful. It seems to die in the configure script.
This is a long-standing class of bugs. Seems to have something to do with autoconf and/or automake. Various threads on forums have suggested removing nls from USE flags but that didn't help me. Also, I remember having a similar problem during 1.4RC1 days although this didn't happen in 1.2 as far as I can remember. So it was probably introduced somewhere in between. Upping the severity to "blocker" simply because it really is an important bug. And a very annoying one as well. Emerge fails on nearly everything that needs to be compiled. If I had to bet, I'd say emerging something overwrote critical config files. Then again, I'm not a Gentoo guru. Here's another account of such a bug: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=528452
This is a duplicate of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14229 "LANG='' emerge something" works perfectly. I thought you people fixed it. Seems to have its roots in 1.2 (According to Robert Renling at least) and I've seen it previously in 1.4RC1. So please fix it some day... Workaround: LANG='' emerge something
so what version of sed have all you've got? does: LANG="C" emerge wxGTK work for the bug reporter. and please do not modify the severity of the bug, blocker is used when a bug causes massive problems for the system, like not being bootable or usable. usually a package that does not merge is not really considered a blocker.
now resetting LANG variable in ebuild.
No, this is not just a problem with wxGTK. As you can see, this happens to nearly *all* packages that use a similar configure setup. So indeed, this *is* a blocker. And yes, LANG="C" emerge wxGTK works. Hell, LANG="anything" emerge wxGTK works. But if the LANG is left unchanged (remains "et_EE") then it will NOT work. Try it: LANG="et_EE" emerge wxGTK And I'm using the portage tree from yesterday so no, the ebuild does not unset LANG. Remove that part from the ebuild and try the above example yourself. If that breaks on your system, reopen the bug and assign it to either someone that takes care of the critical packages or the python wranglers. There are three solutions to this and unsetting LANG in the ebuild is not one of them. 1. Fix whatever is causing this problem. 2. Unset LANG globally in the emerge script. 3. Label this as the official workaround.
sorry -- hate to reopen, but I have a real fix for this that I want to attach, or with your permission, commit (it's been tested on one person's et_EE box and it works).
Created attachment 23912 [details, diff] proper regex patch for configure script
The problem arises because I guess in Estonian locale a is either not the first letter or z is not the last letter. Not sure, but anyway, the following replacements in the configure scipt are necessary: (in sed, egrep statements): a-zA-Z0-9 becomes [:alnum:] a-zA-Z becomes [:alpha:] 0-9 becomes [:digit:] a-z becomes [:lower:] A-Z becomes [:upper:] in tr statements: a-z becomes '[:lower:]' A-Z becomes '[:upper:]' 0-9 becomes '[:digit:]' This is actually the _proper_ way to specify those classes anyway, so these fixes should be sent upstream. anyway, patch is attached.
my opinion on that patch is that it should be a fix in autoconf rather than in the configure script. btw, i can't reproduce this at all using just LANG=et_EE on my side .. is there something that needs to be compiled with et_EE first?
if test -n "`echo $ac_package| sed 's/[-_a-zA-Z0-9]//g'`"; then { echo "configure: error: $ac_package: invalid package name" 1>&2; exit 1; } is the original script-path. How can that fail when LANG is set? "gtk" name all persist in that range, or is the a/z letters interprated differently? In that case I would said this is a sed bug, since A trough Z should be within range containing all the us-ascii letters, excluding local special characters.
Comment on attachment 23912 [details, diff] proper regex patch for configure script patch is wrong, character classes are not portable thus not usuable in autoconf
looks to me like x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.3.2 works fine now
