Bug 32105 – emerge gtkballs-3.01 fails, endless configure

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description ferret 2003-10-27 09:33:21 UTC]

emerging gtkballs version 3.0.1 (the only version for which there is currently an
ebuild in portage, although there used to be a 3.0.0 that did the same thing)
fails, since at the configure step it seems to enter an endless loop.

I have also determined at least one other person ahs the same problem, so I'm not
alone at least :)
I had a look to see if I could work out what was happening and fix it but it was
beyond me.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge gtkballs
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
...creating gtkballs-data/Makefile
creating intl/Makefile
creating po/Makefile.in
creating config.h
cd . \
  && CONFIG_FILES=Makefile CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/sh ./config.status
creating Makefile
cd . \
  && CONFIG_FILES=Makefile CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/sh ./config.status
creating Makefile
cd . \
  && CONFIG_FILES=Makefile CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/sh ./config.status
creating Makefile
....... ad infinitum

Expected Results:  
The installation of a great game onto your system

theferret root # emerge info
Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r8, 2.6.0-test7-bk3)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.0-test7-bk3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.11
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays"
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="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/
                http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
                http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mpeg
ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib alsa gdbm slang
readline arts tetex aalib svga ggi tcltk guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl
python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt motif opengl cdr 3dnow acpi acpi4linux curl dga
directfb doc fbcon gd gphoto2 imap ipv6 java javascript
jikes justify mbox mmx mozilla music noqmax passfile pda php S3TC samba
stencil-buffer tiff usb videos wmf xml xvid -kde -gnome
-berkdb"

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-10-27 11:24:58 UTC]

what version of autoconf & automake ?

[Comment 2 ferret 2003-10-27 13:21:25 UTC]

automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p6 / Autoconf version 2.13

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2003-10-27 13:56:53 UTC]

i meant what does `qpkg -I -v auto` show ? :)

[Comment 4 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2003-10-27 16:09:57 UTC]

sys-devel/automake-1.7.5-r2 *
sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1 *

is what is shows for me.  Obvious, for me it works just fine otherwise I
wouldn't
have commited it to portage. ;-)

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2003-10-27 16:24:42 UTC]

hmm, i'm getting the bug with gtkballs and r-katro ... i'll look into it
here ...
root@vapier 0 root # qpkg -I -v auto
sys-devel/autoconf-2.57a-r1 *
sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 *

[Comment 6 ferret 2003-10-28 16:19:25 UTC]

sys-devel/autoconf-2.57a-r1 *
sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 *

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2003-12-27 00:07:03 UTC]

fixed in cvs

the configure script for some stupid reason thought that running 'touch makefile.in' was a 'good' idea