Bug 777753 – app-text/xmlstarlet-1.6.1 fails to compile with sys-devel/autoconf-2.71

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2021-03-22 17:20:26 UTC]

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: app-text/xmlstarlet-1.6.1 fails to compile (Failed Running automake !).
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: ci)

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2021-03-22 17:20:29 UTC]

Created attachment 693051 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo 2021-03-22 17:20:30 UTC]

Created attachment 693054 [details]
1-automake.out

1-automake.out

[Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo 2021-03-22 17:20:32 UTC]

Possible context of error(s):

 * Failed Running automake !
 *   Failed Running automake !

[Comment 4 Sebastian Pipping 2021-03-22 18:53:17 UTC]

Hi Ago, I have Automake 1.16.3-r1 installed as well and from a quick try I cannot reproduce it locally.  So it will need a closer look.  If you have any ideas whats going on here, I welcome any help I can get.

[Comment 5 Agostino Sarubbo 2021-03-22 22:11:29 UTC]

Hi!

From what I have heard about, it is reproducible with fast processors..

[Comment 6 Sebastian Pipping 2021-03-23 16:19:29 UTC]

(In reply to Agostino Sarubbo from comment #5)
> Hi!
> 
> From what I have heard about, it is reproducible with fast processors..

Interesting!  I have 4983.96 BogoMIPS at my hands at the moment — not as slow as a turtle but not fast enough to be called "fast" I suppose :(

[Comment 7 Agostino Sarubbo 2021-03-23 18:46:16 UTC]

Hi,

I know that it is not the best but can you try if you have more luck with something like:

#!/bin/bash

while true
do
emerge -q1O xmlstarlet || exit 1
done

Do you also have the latest autoconf ?

[Comment 8 Sebastian Pipping 2021-03-23 21:54:40 UTC]

(In reply to Agostino Sarubbo from comment #7)
> Do you also have the latest autoconf ?

I do — 2.71 — and I just see it's masked like this:

  # Lars Wendler <[..]@gentoo.org> (2021-03-22)
  # Has unidentified race condition on very fast CPUs that causes maintainer-
  # mode to be triggered.
  # Most likely caused by the following upstream commit:
  #   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=aba75f6d4a9c875a9d5d90a07c6b3678db66a4bf
  sys-devel/autoconf:2.71

Given that the build log reads…

  sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.71::gentoo

…maybe that's our guy?!  If that build host of yours is considerably faster than my 5k bogomips…