Bug 65175 – subversion-1.0.8 fails: /usr/lib/libcom_err.la: No such file or directory

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Markus Luisser 2004-09-24 02:02:29 UTC]

upon emerging i get the following error:

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cd subversion/tests && /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.0.8/work/subversion-1.0.8/libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -L/var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.0.8/image//usr/lib -O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer   -pthread  -DNEON_ZLIB -DNEON_SSL  -L/usr/lib  -rpath /usr/lib -o libsvn_test-1.la svn_test_editor.lo svn_tests_main.lo ../../subversion/libsvn_delta/libsvn_delta-1.la ../../subversion/libsvn_subr/libsvn_subr-1.la /usr/lib/libaprutil-0.la -lgdbm -ldb-4.1 -lexpat /usr/lib/libapr-0.la -lrt -lm -lcrypt -lnsl  -lpthread -ldl
grep: /usr/lib/libcom_err.la: No such file or directory
/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libcom_err.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libcom_err.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make: *** [subversion/libsvn_ra_dav/libsvn_ra_dav-1.la] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

!!! ERROR: dev-util/subversion-1.0.8 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 132, Exitcode 2
!!! make of subversion failed
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The library /usr/lib/libcom_err.so exists and is part of e2fsprogs.

my emerge info:

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Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
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flags:
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[ebuild     U ] dev-util/subversion-1.0.8 [1.0.6] +apache2 +berkdb -emacs +java +perl +python +ssl
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e2fsprogs is up to date (1.35).

[Comment 1 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2004-09-24 02:19:02 UTC]

It appears you have remnants of a removed kerberos installation laying around. Please try to remerge apache2.

[Comment 2 Markus Luisser 2004-09-24 04:44:36 UTC]

Created attachment 40283 [details]
Apache2 remerge log

Reemerging apache2 doesnt help - subversion dies with the same error - i attach
the log...

[Comment 3 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2004-09-24 11:37:35 UTC]

Could you post the contents of /usr/lib/libapr-0.la. You could also grep the other .la files in /usr/lib for libcom_err. Try to remerge the applications those  .la files belong to. (btw. next time, just attach a log plain, or only gzipped, then I can open it in the browser)

[Comment 4 Markus Luisser 2004-09-25 06:37:56 UTC]

That did the trick:

The only references to libcomm_err that i found in /usr/lib are:
/usr/lib/libneon.la
/usr/lib/libsvn_client-1.la
/usr/lib/libsvn_ra-1.la
/usr/lib/libsvn_ra_dav-1.la
/usr/lib/libsvnjavahl.la

Which all belong to either neon or subversion, reemerging neon-0.24.7 resulted in a successful subversion emerge. Grepping for libcom_err afterwards didnt return any results anymore. Thanks a lot - as always it was a pleasure to get debugged by you ;)

[Comment 5 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2004-09-25 07:51:28 UTC]

Great!