postfix and mimedefang cannot be installed with a single emerge command. # emerge --ask postfix mimedefang These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-arch/libarchive-3.1.2-r1 USE="acl bzip2 e2fsprogs iconv lzma xattr zlib -expat -lzo -nettle -static-libs" [ebuild N ~] mail-filter/mimedefang-2.75 USE="clamav poll" [ebuild N ] dev-util/cmake-2.8.12.2 USE="ncurses -emacs -qt4 (-qt5) {-test}" [ebuild N ] dev-db/mysql-5.1.70 USE="big-tables cluster community perl ssl -debug -embedded -extraengine -latin1 -max-idx-128 -minimal -pbxt -profiling (-selinux) -static {-test} -xtradb" [ebuild N ] virtual/mysql-5.1 USE="-embedded -minimal -static" [ebuild N ] dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.20.0 USE="-embedded" [ebuild N ] mail-mta/postfix-2.10.3 USE="berkdb hardened ldap mysql pam sasl ssl -cdb -doc -dovecot-sasl -ldap-bind -mbox -memcached -nis -postgres (-selinux) -sqlite -vda" Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] "emerge" should not try to install mimedefang BEFORE postfix. Since it tries to emerge mimedefang first, the configure phase of this package will fail because it will complain it can't find the sendmail binary (provided by postfix). The mimedefang ebuild may not correctly depend on postfix/sendmail. Also take a look at forum post at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7587712.html#7587712
(In reply to Vieri from comment #0) > postfix and mimedefang cannot be installed with a single emerge command. Sure they can. > # emerge --ask postfix mimedefang 1) Please post your `emerge --info' output in a comment. > "emerge" should not try to install mimedefang BEFORE postfix. > > Since it tries to emerge mimedefang first, the configure phase of this > package will fail because it will complain it can't find the sendmail binary > (provided by postfix). Lots of packages provide the sendmail binary. 2) Please attach the entire mimedefang build log to this bug report. > The mimedefang ebuild may not correctly depend on postfix/sendmail. That's obvious. It's doubtful and indeed quite fishy that mimedefang would /require/ a sendmail binary. It probably just checks whether it's there (which shouldn't be fatal). Please address the two points above.
# emerge --info Portage 2.2.8-r1 (hardened/linux/x86, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.14.5-hardened-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.14.5-hardened-r2-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_3800+-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 1029292 total, 617216 free KiB Swap: 524220 total, 522896 free Timestamp of tree: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5-r3, 3.3.3 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.17 Repositories: gentoo x-portage ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib/fax /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/bind /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news nostrip parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="acl ads apache2 berkdb bzip2 cli cluster cracklib crypt cxx dri freetds gdbm hardened iconv ipv6 jbig kerberos ldap logrotate modules ncurses nls nptl odbc openmp openrc pam pax_kernel pcre pic radius readline samba session ssl tcpd unicode urandom winbind x86 xattr xtpax zlib" ABI_X86="32" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="es_ES es" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 intel mach64 mga nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa via vmware nouveau" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC, USE_PYTHON
(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #1) > 2) Please attach the entire mimedefang build log to this bug report. > > > The mimedefang ebuild may not correctly depend on postfix/sendmail. > > That's obvious. It's doubtful and indeed quite fishy that mimedefang would > /require/ a sendmail binary. It probably just checks whether it's there > (which shouldn't be fatal). Please address the two points above. Unfortunately I had to move on with the installation and emerged postfix first and then emerged the rest of the packages, including mimedefang. Therefore I can't currently post the mimedefang build log but I do recall reading it and noticing an "econf failure" right after mimedefang's configure script reported that no sendmail binary was found on the system. That failure aborted the installation of mimedefang. I'm planning on reinstalling from scratch another server next week so I can post the log then. As an alternative I could unmerge postfix and mimedefang and try to emerge them together and send the log if it fails again. Will try that tomorrow.
You should save build logs when you intend to file bug reports.
(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #4) > You should save build logs when you intend to file bug reports. Right. My mistake. Now I can't reproduce the original problem (ie. "emerge postfix mimedefang") but I can reproduce part of it. If I unmerge both postfix and mimedefang and then emerge mimedefang alone then I get the same econf fatal error. As you can see below the configure script fails if it doesn't find the 'sendmail' program. Hence emerge aborts. Shouldn't the mimedefang ebuild *require* a virtual package that provides 'sendmail'? # cat /var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/mimedefang-2.75/temp/build.log * Package: mail-filter/mimedefang-2.75 * Repository: gentoo * Maintainer: net-mail@gentoo.org * USE: abi_x86_32 clamav elibc_glibc kernel_linux poll userland_GNU x86 * FEATURES: nostrip preserve-libs sandbox userpriv usersandbox >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking mimedefang-2.75.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/mimedefang-2.75/work >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/mimedefang-2.75/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/mimedefang-2.75/work/mimedefang-2.75 ... * Applying mimedefang-2.72-ldflags.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/mimedefang-2.75/work/mimedefang-2.75 ... ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib --with-user=defang --enable-poll --enable-clamav --enable-clamd checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for ar... ar checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers/xattr/install -c checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking whether socklen_t is defined... yes checking for Perl installation variable prefix... /usr checking for Perl installation variable siteprefix... /usr/local checking for Perl installation variable vendorprefix... /usr checking for Perl installation variable installarchlib... /usr/lib/perl5/5.16.3/i686-linux checking for Perl installation variable installprivlib... /usr/lib/perl5/5.16.3 checking for Perl installation variable installbin... /usr/bin checking for Perl installation variable installman1dir... /usr/share/man/man1 checking for Perl installation variable installman3dir... /usr/share/man/man3 checking for Perl installation variable installscript... /usr/bin checking for Perl installation variable installsitearch... /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.16.3/i686-linux checking for Perl installation variable installsitelib... /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.16.3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for wait3 that fills in rusage... yes checking for nm... /usr/bin/nm checking for Perl module IO::Socket... ok checking for Perl module MIME::Tools 5.410 ()... ok checking for Perl module MIME::WordDecoder... ok checking for Perl module Digest::SHA1... ok checking for Perl module Mail::SpamAssassin 3.0 or better... yes checking for Perl module HTML::Parser... yes checking for Perl module Archive::Zip... yes checking MIME-Tools version... 5.504 checking for Perl module Sys::Syslog... ok checking for Perl module Unix::Syslog... no checking for Perl module ExtUtils::Embed... ok checking getopt.h usability... yes checking getopt.h presence... yes checking for getopt.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes checking poll.h usability... yes checking poll.h presence... yes checking for poll.h... yes checking whether stdint.h defines uint32_t... yes checking whether sys/types.h defines uint32_t... no checking whether sig_atomic_t is defined... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -pthread... yes checking if we can embed a Perl interpreter in C... yes checking if it is safe to destroy and recreate a Perl interpreter... yes checking for res_init in -lresolv... no checking for htons in -lsocket... no checking for gethostbyname in -lnsl... yes checking for pthread_once in -lpthread... yes checking for initgroups... yes checking for getpwnam_r... yes checking for setrlimit... yes checking for snprintf... yes checking for vsnprintf... yes checking for readdir_r... yes checking for pathconf... yes checking for inet_ntop... yes checking for antivir... /bin/false checking for vascan... /bin/false checking for uvscan... /bin/false checking for bdc... /bin/false checking for sweep... /bin/false checking for savscan... /bin/false checking for vscan... /bin/false checking for kavscanner... /bin/false checking for clamscan... /usr/bin/clamscan checking for AvpLinux... /bin/false checking for kavdaemon... /bin/false checking for aveclient... /bin/false checking for csav... /bin/false checking for fsav... /bin/false checking for f-prot... /bin/false checking for fpscan... /bin/false checking for sophie... /bin/false checking for nvcc... /bin/false checking for clamd... /usr/sbin/clamd checking for trophie... /bin/false checking for nod32cli... /bin/false checking for sendmail... no checking for rm... /bin/rm configure: WARNING: Oops.. I couldn't find the 'sendmail' program. Please install it. !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/mimedefang-2.75/work/mimedefang-2.75/config.log * ERROR: mail-filter/mimedefang-2.75::gentoo failed (configure phase): * econf failed * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 93: Called src_configure * environment, line 2201: Called econf '--with-user=defang' '--enable-poll' '--enable-clamav' '--enable-clamd' * phase-helpers.sh, line 584: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "econf failed" * * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=mail-filter/mimedefang-2.75::gentoo'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=mail-filter/mimedefang-2.75::gentoo'`. * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/mimedefang-2.75/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/mimedefang-2.75/temp/environment'. * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/mimedefang-2.75/work/mimedefang-2.75' * S: '/var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/mimedefang-2.75/work/mimedefang-2.75'
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 514412 ***
