econf() contains the following snippet of code: if [ -e "${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/gnuconfig/ ]; then find "${WORKDIR}" -type f '(' \ -name config.guess -o -name config.sub ')' -print0 | \ while read -r -d $'\0' x ; do __vecho " * econf: updating ${x/${WORKDIR}\/} with ${EPREFIX}/usr/share/gnuconfig/${x##*/}" # Make sure we do this atomically incase we're run in parallel. #487478 cp -f "${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/gnuconfig/"${x##*/}" "${x}.${pid}" mv -f "${x}.${pid}" "${x}" done fi This is neither mentioned in PMS nor in Portage documentation. AFAICS, it was added back in 2004 to fix an issue with uclibc: https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-src/portage/bin/ebuild.sh?r1=1.184&r2=1.185 Originally it was optional (FEATURES=autoconfig) but was made unconditional later. Not sure how to proceed. Note that the same code exists in Pkgcore and Paludis.
This poses a problem in cases like bug 883201 where we actually want to disable it.
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #0) > This is neither mentioned in PMS nor in Portage documentation. AFAICS, it > was added back in 2004 to fix an issue with uclibc: > https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-src/portage/bin/ebuild.sh?r1=1.184&r2=1.185 Updated link: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/archive/proj/portage-cvs.git/commit/bin/ebuild.sh?id=4169ff3e11c5fbbc5c31d7d116a67f9308a7478c
