Bug 924046 – dev-lang/elixir-1.15.6 fails to compile: sh: line 1: make LIBTOOL=rlibtool: command not found

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2024-02-08 08:09:40 UTC]

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

Issue: dev-lang/elixir-1.15.6 fails to compile.
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: slibtool_tinderbox)
System: SLIBTOOL-SYSTEM (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Tinderbox/Common_Issues_Helper#SLIBTOOL)

Info about the issue:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Tinderbox/Common_Issues_Helper#CF0014

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2024-02-08 08:09:42 UTC]

Created attachment 884517 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier 2024-02-13 21:59:54 UTC]

environment:
> MAKE="make LIBTOOL=rlibtool"

build log:
> "make LIBTOOL=rlibtool" unicode

Couldn't there be a better way of enabling slibtool, something like MAKEOPTS? Because $MAKE should point to an executable and seems reasonable to quote (for example to make it work when there's a space in the path).

[Comment 3 orbea 2024-02-21 20:19:23 UTC]

> Couldn't there be a better way of enabling slibtool, something like MAKEOPTS? > Because $MAKE should point to an executable and seems reasonable to quote (for > example to make it work when there's a space in the path).

The value can be lost in cases of recursive make, for example with binutils.