Bug 326929 – [TRACKER] Packages failing to build with Autoconf 2.67

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-07-04 22:29:36 UTC]

This bug is used to track packages which fail to build with Autoconf 2.66.

[Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2010-07-04 23:01:59 UTC]

I ask for 2.66 to be written off as broken: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([void*]) no longer works (see bug #326931)...

[Comment 2 Gef 2010-07-04 23:23:30 UTC]

Looks like upstream is aware of this regression:
http://osdir.com/ml/autoconf-gnu/2010-07/msg00004.html
(patch included)

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2010-07-05 03:16:56 UTC]

there are others too, so dont use autoconf-2.66 yet

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2010-08-05 17:36:55 UTC]

2.66 has been punted from the tree and 2.67 is in now if people want to stress that version

[Comment 5 Sergey Ilinykh 2010-09-09 07:47:20 UTC]

just got this bug http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general/13133/focus=13153 while configuring libgphoto2-2.4.9 with autoconf-2.67

[Comment 6 Sergey Ilinykh 2010-09-09 08:08:16 UTC]

hm. i'm wrong a bit. error by link above is not exactly the same but very similar.



# cat /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.9/temp/autoconf.out
***** autoconf *****
***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.9/work/libgphoto2-2.4.9/libgphoto2_port
***** autoconf

configure:11176: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FDdnl
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.

[Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-10-27 10:18:41 UTC]

I assume autoconf-2.68 is the next stable target. It fixes a lof of 2.66 and 2.67 regressions.

- pkg-config, libgphoto2, luatex were broken and have been fixed
- some dotnet packages fail with 2.66 and 2.67 but succeed with 2.65 and 2.68, therefore not a issue... works with latest stable, and latest ~arch

So no bugs left, closing