Bug 460786 – sys-fs/sysfsutils-2.1.0: epunt_cxx called unnecessarily

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Roman Žilka 2013-03-08 16:12:02 UTC]

sys-fs/sysfsutils-2.1.0 on amd64:

QA: unpack
epunt_cxx called unnecessarily (no C++ checks to punt).

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2013-03-09 12:29:59 UTC]

You shouldn't really have sys-fs/sysfsutils installed. It doesn't work with anything even remotely recent kernel. 
It uses so old sysfs from kernel that if you enabled the required options, it would render your system non-bootable with current udev.

With that said, I've dropped the check from the ebuild
Thanks

[Comment 2 Roman Žilka 2013-03-09 12:41:32 UTC]

I see. Well, I have it because sys-apps/linux-misc-apps deps on it. As well as 6 other packages in portage. Shall I file bugs to ask to have this dep removed/replaced?

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2013-03-09 12:49:42 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I see. Well, I have it because sys-apps/linux-misc-apps deps on it. As well
> as 6 other packages in portage. Shall I file bugs to ask to have this dep
> removed/replaced?

See bug 377673

And linux-misc-apps is suffering from bug 377691 because usbip is part of linux-misc-apps, what could be done is filing a bug against linux-misc-apps that makes usbip optional -> thus makes sysfsutils optional

[Comment 4 Roman Žilka 2013-03-09 18:48:45 UTC]

This change may need to be reverted and the bug re-open as depending on bug 460992.

[Comment 5 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2013-03-12 18:00:04 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> This change may need to be reverted and the bug re-open as depending on bug
> 460992.

Replaced epunt_cxx with eautoreconf which runs it with autoconf-2.69 (propably a bit older is ok too) and then epunt_cxx is unnecessary
That is, because it has hitting the autotools "maintainer mode" on it's own after ./configure, as in, same thing what eautoreconf does, but wrong way
So this is fixed now

Checking dev-libs/expat next