Bug 123898 – sysfsutils-1.3.0-r1 ebuild breaks on: configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --datadir:

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Frank 2006-02-24 01:03:31 UTC]

I've found threads with problems with this version while compiling but not this error:

>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking sysfsutils-1.3.0.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/sysfsutils-1.3.0-r1/work
 * Running elibtoolize in: sysfsutils-1.3.0
 *   Applying portage-1.4.1.patch ...
 *   Applying sed-1.4.0.patch ...
 *   Applying uclibc-conf-1.2.0.patch ...
>>> Source unpacked.
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/sysfsutils-1.3.0-r1/work/sysfsutils-1.3.0 ...
 * econf: updating sysfsutils-1.3.0/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess
 * econf: updating sysfsutils-1.3.0/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i586-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu
configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --datadir:

!!! ERROR: sys-fs/sysfsutils-1.3.0-r1 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1894:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 941:   Called src_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 589:   Called econf

!!! econf failed

===============
emerge --info
Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 VIA Samuel 2
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
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-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=i586 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/"
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 apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt eds emboss encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 imap imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad maildir mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pam-mysql pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sasl spell ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-02-24 01:49:21 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123342 ***