Bug 32957 – emerge app-sci/units-1.74 failed because of error in units.c

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Boris 2003-11-07 10:30:19 UTC]

Emerging app-sci/units-1.74 fails with the message below (see "Actual Results").

This is because of the comment in the end of units.c which contains the 
charakters */ in some shell-commands. This lets the cc think, that the comment 
ist finished and tries to compile the Rest.

As a workaround it helps to do:

ebuild /usr/portage/app-sci/units/units-1.74.ebuild unpack
#Edit the units.c in /var/tmp/portage/units-1.74/work/units-1.74/ and cut the 
last few lines with the script.
ebuild /usr/portage/app-sci/units/units-1.74.ebuild compile
ebuild /usr/portage/app-sci/units/units-1.74.ebuild merge

I hope you can understand everything, my english is not the best since I am out 
of school :(

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

Actual Results:  
Here is the shortened output of emerge:

[...]
gcc -DUNITSFILE=\"/usr/share/units/units.dat\"  -DREADLINE   -mcpu=athlon-xp 
-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -m3dnow -mmmx -I.  -c getopt1.c
sed s!@DATAFILE@!/usr/share/units/units.dat! ./units.man > units.1
units.c: In function `main':
units.c:2218: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
units.c:2329:5: missing terminating " character
make: *** [units.o] Error 1

!!! ERROR: app-sci/units-1.74 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 19, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)


Expected Results:  
Complete the compiling

Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.
21-pfeifer-r1_pre4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.21-pfeifer-r1_pre4 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -m3dnow 
-mmmx"
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/kde/3.2/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="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer 
-m3dnow -mmmx"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox ccache distcc userpriv usersandbox cvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp:
//ftp.fhh.opensource-mirror.de/pub/gentoo.org/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.
de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.
tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.
snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.
org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.linux.
no/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Gentoo ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.
fi/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.inode.
at/source/ ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ucsb.
edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.noved.org/ ftp://planetmirror.
com/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mpeg ncurses 
pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb alsa readline 
tetex svga tcltk java X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis 
qt kde motif opengl cdr 3dnow bootsplash dga expat fbcon flash imagemagick imap 
irmc j-noaim j-nojud j-nomsn j-nomuconf j-noyahoo maildir mldonkeypango mmx 
moznocompose moznoirc moznomail nocd offensive physfs qtmt socks5 sse usb xml 
xvid -oss -foomaticdb -gnome -nls -gdbm -berkdb -slang -arts -esd -gtk"

[Comment 1 Boris 2003-11-07 10:35:00 UTC]

Created attachment 20384 [details]
the output of a diff between old units.c and the edited one

[Comment 2 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2003-11-12 01:36:31 UTC]

Actually, there's already a fix in 1.74-r1 available.
New version 1.80 will contain it aswell.
Thanks for reporting anyway.

[Comment 3 Boris 2003-11-12 04:08:19 UTC]

I saw that 1.74-r1 emerged fine, but 1.74 is the version in stable tree and 1.74-r1 is ~x86, so I reported it.

[Comment 4 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2003-11-12 04:33:00 UTC]

You are using gcc-3.3.2, so a normal x86 user won't notice this problem. If the new gcc gets stable, units will have to follow.