Bug 115688 – dev-tcltk/expect-5.43 fails to build with 'invalid host type'

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Talle 2005-12-15 12:17:50 UTC]

Trying to emerge expect-5.43 (and previous versions) and it fails in configure
with the following message: 

configure: warning: CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe: invalid host type
configure: warning: build_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu: invalid host type
configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time
configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for testsuite

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -vu expect

Actual Results:  
config.status: executing default commands
configure: configuring in testsuite
configure: running /bin/sh './configure' --prefix=/usr  '--prefix=/usr'
'--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
'--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var/lib'
'--with-tcl=/usr/lib' '--with-tclinclude=/usr/lib/tcl8.4/include/generic'
'--with-tk=/usr/lib' '--enable-shared' '--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu'
'CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe' 'build_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu'
'host_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
configure: warning: CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe: invalid host type
configure: warning: build_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu: invalid host type
configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time
configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for testsuite

!!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/expect-5.43.0/work/expect-5.43/config.log


Expected Results:  
Emerged expect

Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3,
2.6.14-gentoo-r4-evil i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r4-evil i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2100+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.15
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env
/usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo
ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo
ftp://mirror.scarlet-internet.nl/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/
http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 16bit 3dnow 3dnowex 3dnowext 3ds 7zip X a52 aac aalib acl alsa amd
apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb
bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib c++ ccache cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom cgi chroot codecs
crypt css cups curl curlwrappers dba dga directfb divx4linux dv dvd dvdr eds
emboss encode escreen esd ethereal exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb
fortran freetype ftp gd gdbm gif gimp glade glut gmp gpm gs gstreamer gtk gtk2
gtkhtml icq idn imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 ithreads jabber java
javascript jp2 jpeg jpeg2k kde koffice-plugin lcms libcaca libedit libg++ libwww
live mad mbox md5sum mhash mikmod mime mimencode mjpeg mmx mmx2 mmxext mng motif
mozaccess mozcalendar mozctl mozdevelop mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3
mpeg mplayer mppe-mppc msn mysql ncurses nls nvidia nviz offensive ogg oggvorbis
openal opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl php png posix pthreads python qt
quicktime readline real recode samba sdl session sockets spell sqlite sse sse2
ssl stream svga tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1
type1-fonts udev usb v4l v4l2 visualization vnc vorbis win32codecs wxwindows
xchatdccserver xchattext xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xscreensaver xsl xslt
xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Talle 2005-12-15 12:20:55 UTC]

Created attachment 74817 [details]
Configure log, requested

This is de configure log emerge requested me to attach...

[Comment 2 John Barberio 2006-03-07 05:14:05 UTC]

Looking at the output, the problem is that the the build process passes a spurious argument to the configure command. By adding in 'CHOST=...' in at the wrong place, configure belives this to be a the rest of the '--build' declaration. Nulling CHOST has no effect, as the build process still passes a spurious CHOST argument. Nothing in the ebuild for expect seems to indicate that the ebuild is doing this. Is there a bug in econf?

[Comment 3 John Barberio 2006-04-12 08:45:48 UTC]

Bumping this. Since I have the same problem, and no one appears to be looking at this.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-09-03 22:03:23 UTC]

*** Bug 191187 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Pawel Madej aka Nysander 2008-11-24 23:26:52 UTC]

Is this bug valid anymore or the problem was resolved? if yes please close this bug, if not please leave additional info

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2010-12-17 22:15:45 UTC]

expect-5.43.0 had its configure script built with autoconf-2.13 which has many
known bugs.  i wouldnt be surprised if this was one such bug.

current stable (expect-5.44.1.15) uses autoconf-2.59, so unless you can reproduce with that (or a newer version), assuming fixed.